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Senate Bill 2982 Maternity Leave Expanded to 100 Days for Public and Private Female Employees

Females especially those who are currently pregnant are now clamoring for the passage of the Bill seeking to expand the 60 days maternity leave into 100 days. If this bill becomes law, this will bring huge benefits and blessings to mother and child, and the Philippine society in general.

Unfortunately, as of April 2016 this bill has not been made into law yet. Saan ang aberya?

Per checking with the official website of the Senate of the Philippines, Senate Bill 2982 is still pending in the House of Representatives since January 20,2016.

See this snapshot of the Bill’s status from gov.ph the Philippine Government official website.

Expanded Maternity Leave Law Senate Bill 2982

So what does this mean?

Filipinos still has to wait for the Lower House version of this bill to be passed, then for the Bicameral Conference Committee to convene and resolve the differences between the version of the Senate and Congress.

Once done, we will again wait for this bill to be forwarded to President Aquino, and for PNoy to sign this bill into law, an RA number will be assigned.  And finally to wait for the implementing rules and effectivity date.

*RA means Republic Act.

But by the looks of it, the Expanded Maternity Leave bill will not be signed under President Aquino since it is already April now, and our lawmakers are very busy with the 2016 presidential election.

We just hope that whoever sits in the 17th Congress will make the maternity leave expansion bill as High Priority.

Senate Bill 2982 Maternity Leave 100 days

SENATE BILL 2982 SPONSORS

Senate sponsors of the Expanded Maternity Leave Law under the 16th Congress are Senator Pia Cayetano together with Senators Cynthia Villar, Ma Lourdes Binay, Loren Legarda, Ramon Revilla Jr, and Antonio Trillanes.

House of Senate has passed the Expanded Maternity bill. Now, we await for the House of Congress to deliberate and pass this bill.

MATERNITY LEAVE EXPANSION

The International Labor Organization or ILO sets the minimum number of maternity leave at 98 days, but currently the Philippines only allows 60 days for public female employees, and 60 to 78 days for private female employees.

In comparison the island state nation of Singapore grants 112 days maternity leave, Vietnam at minimum of 120 days, Indonesia and Cambodia at 84 days.

The main focus of the bill is to extend the number of days of maternity leave from 60 to 100 days. Senate Bill 2982 also includes an option for mothers to avail of the additional 30 days leave without pay, provided that the mother will give 45 days advance notice in writing to the employer or agency concern.

How long are we going to wait for the RA Expanded Maternity Law? When will this be effective?

It depends on our lawmakers on how long it will take them to submit the Lower House version.

Will this be passed before President Aquino steps down this July? A lot of people hope so. But if Congress will not convene to tackle this bill before their current term expires, then waiting time is extended too.

Make noise, urge your congressmen to make the Expanded Maternity Leave bill a high priority. Congress must act fast!  We want the Expanded Maternity Leave bill to become law!

UPDATE October 2016 HOUSE HAS APPROVED the 100 days maternity leave for government and private sector employees, this is under House Bill No. 4113. It will be soon when this bill become law.

iSensey will post another update once this bill will become a bonafide Republic Act under the Duterte Administration.

UPDATE March 2017 SENATE HAS APPROVED 120-Day Expanded Maternity Leave Bill pushed for by senators with main author Senator Risa Hontiveros under the 17th Congress.

So is this effective now March 2017? Nope, not yet. We will all wait for the senate and house committee to meet to consolidate the two bills (the one from Congress and the one from Senate).

Once done the consolidated bill will be forwarded to President Duterte for approval and signing, this bill will then become a REPUBLIC ACT or Law. And then another waiting time for the publishing of the Implementing Rules and Regulation on this Expanded Maternity Bill (IRR). Once the IRR is complete, the Republic Act on Expanded Maternity Law will be effective and will be implemented.

UPDATE October 3, 2018 THE BICAMERAL COMMITTEE has finished consolidating the provisions of the Senate Maternity Leave extension bill and the House of Representative Extension of Maternity bill!!!

We are almost on the home stretch now, we are just waiting for the Implementing Rules and Regulations, the approval and signature of President Duterte for this to become LAW, and publishing para maging effective na.

Instead of the 100 days maternity leave, senators and congressman who are members of the BiCam committee agreed that it will be 105 days of paid leave after giving birth! The 7 days of which may be transferred by the mother to the father of her child as paternity leave.

Maybe this Maternity Leave Extension will be effective this 2018, after all, there is hope!

UPDATE February 20, 2019 THE EXPANDED MATERNITY LEAVE 105 DAYS IS NOW A LAW! President Duterte has signed the EML Bill!

*105 days is paid maternity leave.

*If you are a single mother, you will get additional 15 days, so that’s 105 + 15 = 120 days of maternity leave total.

*The mother has an option to file for additional 30 days of maternity leave but this will be no pay.

*7 days of the maternity leave can be transferred to the father of the child.

Next step is to wait for publication of the Implementing Rules and Regulation and its publication.

Are you giving birth soon? Or may kilala na manganganak, share this good news with her!

Reader Interactions

Comments

    • Hi Janine, nope this was not disapproved by PNoy since it did not reach the Office of the President. Nastop yung process sa Congress side, di na nahabol sa last sessions ng 16th Congress. Hopefully this will be passed by both Senate and Congress during President Duterte’s administration.

  3. Bakit most of the private company na kung san nagwowork mga friends ko hino honor na ang new bill about sa mayernity leave. Howcome na sa company namin hindi pa.

    • Hindi pa po, kakapasa lang ng bill sa House, so mag-aantay sa Senate version, tapos sa conference committee, then pipirmahan ng president, then implementing rules and regulation pa.

        • Baka next year na po to ma fully effective and implemented. Di naman back to zero kasi ififile lang ulit yung senate version (which was previously approved so madali na ipaaprove ulit wala na masyadong deliberation needed).

      • Feb 2017 po posts were saying that President had signed the bill. When will this be effective? My ML is almost over. I gave birth on March 2017

        • Where did you read a Feb 2017 post that this bill was signed into law? Hindi pa po, malayo pa po makarating to sa presidente for PRRD to sign. Last March 2017 Senate passed the bill, wala pa sa bicameral committee to.

  6. Ano na pong latest dito? May estimated timeline po ba from Senate version to conference committee to President to implementing rules? Like may date po ba kelan for Senate? Sayang manganganak na ako ng Feb 9 2017. Sana maabutan ko ito..

  8. Due date ko na this coming December 2016. Hindi pa man ako buntis inaabangan ko na to, manganganak na ko mukhang di ko pa ata maabutan to 🙁

  9. sana ma-approve na ito before my due. It will be on April next year. nakakapang hinayang kasi kung after ko pa manganak, saka ma-approve.

  10. Sana maapprove na before this year end..para sgurado next year n due ko mafile n ng maaus yan sa company,,buti p nga sa ibang company honored na yan..sana sa atin dn..still praying and hoping pra naman makasama ng matagal ang mga babies..:-)

  11. sna po maupdate niu kame with regards to this..all upcoming mommy before year ends and start of next year are all waiting…

  15. Yikes! Not so good news for expactant moms in early 2017 🙁 Maybe not the government’s priority to attend to (obviously). But let’s hope and pray Mommies. Or probably senators Pia, Nancy even senator Loren will get pregnant soon para ma-fast track. Lol.

  17. Hello, good morning.
    Is it true that this was already signed by Pres. Duterte and is now in civil service commission for the guidelines & implementation?

    • Hi Catcat, nope po, kaka tackle lang ng bill na to ulit sa 17th Congress last week. Pag meron na magandang news sa maternity leave extension bill, rest assured we will update agad kasi we know a lot of Filipinos, especially women are waiting for the passage and full implementation of this bill.

  18. Bakit po kaya subrang tagal since 2015 pa po ito dba.. possible po kaya before August ma implement na? Thnaks

    • May iba pong priority bills na pinagtutuonan ng pansin ang mga mambabatas, kaya matagal :/ sana nga bilisan nila na ang bill na to. August sa tingin po namin malabo pa, pero sana mali kami.

  20. Looking forward to the 120days naman. Passed and approved by the Senate already. What and where are the next steps?

  22. sana kasi next time ilabas nila sa news pag pirmado na talaga.. dami lang nahype eh..

  23. Sabi nasa 2nd reading palang to ng house. Usually matagal ba talaga yun? Sana in 3 months maimplement na to.

  25. one of these days manganganak na ako. Sana man lang maimplement na to agad. Malaking bagay kesa sa 2mos maternity leave before.

  26. Mabilis naaprobahan sa senate and 120 days maternity leave, sana ganun dn sa house for concurrence and mapermahan kaagad ng President.

  28. i hope effective na ung 120 days maternity leave cause i need more rest.. 🙁 sad matatapos na ung 78days maternity leave ko i need more time to recover.. specially sa baby ko gusto ko pA xang alagaan ng fulltime..

  29. Ask ko lang po. What if lang na maapprove sa president this year, covered ba ung mga nagnotify sa sss before pa mapirmahan ng president? Like me we found out that I’m pregnant last Dec 2016 nagnotification ako sa SSS ng month of January 2017.. by August ako manganganak. what if lang maapprove before august, macocovered ba ako sa 120 days na leave?

    • Pag mapirmahan ni president at lumabas na yung IRR ng law (Implementing Rules and Regulation) saka lang maging effective; pag manganak ka after maging effective, applied na din sayo yung bagong rule.

  30. Bilis bilisan lang nila madami nang mga mommy ang umasa na ma implement yan this year…actually mahaba na ang isang bwan kung pagtutuunan lang nila ng pansin…….

  31. Pano po pag nanganak ng August tapos naging effective yung expanded maternity leave ng september, pwede parin ba nya ma avail yung bagong rule? thanks

    • Sa tingin po namin hindi po. Also, mukhang as of now malabo po to maging effective this 2017. Baka po sa 2018, sana.

    • Hi Lynne, approved na sa Senate and House BUT mag-memeet pa ang Bicameral Committee to consolidate and reconcile conflicting provisions. After, ipapasa ke President Duterte for approval. Then mag national publication pa for the Implementing Rules and Regulation for the Expanded Maternity Bill or IRR, before maging effective. Hopefully by start of 2019 law na sya and effective na.

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