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Under Senate Bill 2656 filed by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, the mandated maternity leave benefits of a pregnant employee runs up to 120 days or four months. The current leave allocation is just 60 days for women who have undergone normal delivery.

“Senate Bill 2656 also obligates every employer to grant any pregnant woman employee, who has rendered an aggregate service of at least six months for the last 12 months, maternity leave benefits of at least two weeks prior to the expected date of delivery and another 22 weeks after normal or caesarian delivery with full pay based on her regular or average weekly wages,” reports Maila Ager on Inquirer.net.

The report noted: “Trillanes, in filing the bill, pointed out that Article II, Section  14 of the Constitution provides that the State should recognize the role of women in nation-building and ensure the fundamental equality before the law of men and women.”

The senator, as the report indicated, is seeking “the immediate passage of his proposed measure.”

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