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Maternity Leave Case Study

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Chapter 93 of the Employment Order 2009 presents a statement offering women’s rights to receive maternity leave and in the period of her maternity leave, she is eligible to rest, being paid and being protected against any sort of termination by her employer.

Previously, female employees were only entitled to have a maternity leave of 56 days. During the New Year 2011, His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam in His Titah, he restated the significance of a mother’s wellbeing before and after giving birth thus enforcing a new enactment called the Maternity Leave Order 2011 which increase the maternity leave for female employees for 15 weeks or 105 days (The Brunei Times, 2011).

In the enactment of Maternity Leave Order 2011, states that the maternity leave is offered and is eligible to all female in civil sector, in the private sector, monthly employee, on-contract employee, off-site employee, on-vote employee as well as daily paid employee and they must be officially married according to the laws of Brunei Darussalam (The Brunei Times, 2011).

In the news written by The Brunei Times (2011), The Maternity Leave Order 2011 is a new order effective as of 1st January 2011 which automatically revoked the Prime Minister's Office Circular 17/1993 issued on 4th September 1993.

The Employment Order 2009 stated …show more content…

In the book, it stated that the eligibility of maternity leave for foreign employee is a period of 9 weeks, i.e. an immediate period of 4 weeks before and an immediate period of 5 weeks after her delivery. Within the last 4 weeks period after her delivery, a mutual agreement can be arranged between the employer and the employee herself, that she is eligible to receive the last 4 weeks of her maternity leave within a period of 6 months from the date of her

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