Practice question
A qualified solo-parent employee has a live childbirth and satisfies all applicable maternity-benefit requirements. She elects the statutory thirty-day unpaid extension and gives the required timely written notice; no allocation is made. Management says the extra fifteen solo-parent days and the thirty-day extension are both paid only if it volunteers. Which is sound?
- The basic period is only seven days
- All additional time is a discretionary gift
- Every extended day is necessarily paid
- The qualified solo-parent addition is fifteen paid days, while the separately elected thirty-day extension is without pay under the statute
- The notice abolishes the maternity entitlement
Legal references
- RA11210, Sections 3–5: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2019/ra_11210_2019.html
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