Progressive: Single Male Parents to Get Two-Year Childcare Leave in Haryana

Haryana, Dec 15, 2022: Haryana’s state Cabinet, which came together under Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, has approved amendment to the Haryana Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 2016, under which childcare leave of two years will be applicable for male government employees, who is a single parent as well.

These may be referred to as the HCS (Leave) Amendment Rules-2022 and shall come into effect from the date of publication in the official gazette.

This means that a single male government employee, whether unmarried, widower or legally divorced, and a female government staffer can acquire childcare leave for a maximum period of two years (730 days) during the entire service for taking care of their two eldest children up to the age of 18 years.

According to the amendment, the childcare leave has been conferred upon single male government employee apart from female staff on the pattern of the Centre by amending the rule 46 of the HCS (Leave) Rules, 2016.

In addition to this, the condition of childcare leave for children less than 18 years will not be applicable to specially abled ones, if impairment is more than 60 per cent and if such a child is completely dependent on a female government employee or single male employee as the case may be.