| Hi, I am the HR manager of a hospital which employs about 300 employees. It has become an increasing trand among the organization that nurses after availing maternity week of 12 weeks at full pay are resigning from services. In such a case, what protection does an organization have? Can it take any action? Or can the organization have such an arrangement that the employees will get paid for the maternity leave on resuming duty? regards, Madhumita Roy Siliguri dear roy one has right to leave the organisation as and when she wishes but she should complete the required conditions of appointment. you have to pay in lieu of maternity leave and you can not have agreement also to pay after joining the duties. but if some one did not join after maternity leave or leave without notice period than you can deduct notice pay from her full and final settlement. tks j s malik Hi Madumitha Roy, I have gone through your mail and it is sad to note that nurses resign jobs after received post maternity benefit, wshich is causing los to the organization. It is human tendency to change jobs when they are paid with the better pay package and work benefits. In order to out come this kind problem your hospital has to out source to an ageny for recruting nurses and house keeping staff only required admin/HR staff and duty doctors on the apy roll of the hospital. The othe professional doctors are paid on a case to case basis or on retention basis whichver is convenient. Once the section of jobs are out sourced the quality of personnel your hospital gets is really wonderful and in case you are not satisfied with the work any of the official you can always remind your outsourcing agency to change the personnel as per your requirements I hope your doubts are cleared Tahnks & Regds, Raghunath Dear Roy I think the problem can be handled tactfully instead legally as you are bound to pay the maternity compensation which is written in the maternity act and in our constitution as well. You should be pro-active at the time of hiring nurses like you should take only young nurses or unmarried. you should take written consent that they would not go for pregnancy within the specific period of employment which is generally happens in educational institutions. Upto what extent the written consent is workable that is to be figured out but it will definitely help in stopping such practice as at the time of recruitment the candidates become ready to give employment consents in writing. Regards Pradeep Dear all, First thing that needs to be find out is that attrition rate is high for all nurses or only for those who have availed their maternity leave. Organisation in the later case can work out for some schemes like flexiblity in timings for such nurses or some child benefit policy. such practices help to create bonding with organisation. Regards, Bhavna
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