The maternity leave is awarded with full pay on completion of at least 80 days in an establishment in the 12 months prior to her expected date of delivery. The maternity benefit is awarded at the rate of the average daily wage for the period of a worker's actual absence from work. Apart from 12 weeks of salary, a female worker is entitled to a medical bonus of 3,500 Indian rupees.

Under the new Law, maternity leave is raised from current 12 weeks to 26 weeks. The prenatal leave is also extended from six to eight weeks. However, a woman with already two or more children is entitled to 12 weeks’ maternity leave. The prenatal leave in this case remains six weeks.

Regards.

Please read section 5(2) of the Maternity Benefit Act.

However I have reproduced the relevant portion of section 5(2)below

"No woman shall be entitled to maternity benefit unless she has actually worked in an establishment of the employer from whom she claims maternity benefit for a period of not less than eighty days in the twelve months immediately preceding the date of her expected delivery:"

Guest teachers in Delhi government-run schools will now be entitled to maternity benefits

“It has been decided to extend benefits under the Maternity Benefits Act, 1961, and Maternity Benefits (Amendment) Act, 2017, to all guest teachers working in the Directorate of Education, Delhi government,” an official order read.

Pay parity

The Delhi School Tribunal had recently pulled up a private school for “illegally and arbitrarily” terminating the services of a contractual teacher on grounds that she asked for maternity leave, and ordered that she be “reinstated”.

Dear Client,

Temprorary, Ad Hoc And Contract Staff Also Entitled To Maternity Leave: CAT [Read Order]...

Read more at: http://www.livelaw.in/temprorary-ad-hoc-contract-staff-also-entitled-maternity-leave-cat-read-order/

Contract Employees In Govt Establishments Entitled To Maternity Leave At Par With Govt Servants: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]...

Read more at: http://www.livelaw.in/contract-employees-govt-establishments-entitled-maternity-leave-par-govt-servants-kerala-hc/

Your wife shall be entitled to maternity benefit with 80 days of employment please refer to section 5 maternity benifit act.

http://www.ilo.org/dyn/travail/docs/678/maternitybenefitsact1961.pdf

further she will be entitled to 26 weeks of leave completely paid,

refer to amendment

https://labour.gov.in/sites/default/files/Maternity%20Benefit%20Amendment%20Act%2C2017%20.pdf

Further the delhi governemrnt has passed an office order for guest teachers to get the matenity benifit kindly refer the news I am searching for the officer order will provide you with the same:

https://www.ndtv.com/jobs/delhi-government-school-guest-teachers-to-get-maternity-benefits-1779228

Sir Please refer the education department circular below to your point:

http://www.edudel.nic.in/upload/upload_2017_18/917_926_dt_23112017.pdf

File an application along with the copy of this circular and Maternity benefit act section 5 along with the amendment school shall grant you relief.

CAT observed that it is a fact that temporary, ad hoc or contract employees do not enjoy the same benefits as a regular employee but request for maternity leave stood on a different footing. In a significant ruling, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has said that temporary, ad hoc and contract women employees are also entitled to maternity leave and consequent benefits akin to regular staff....

The CAT based its ruling on a Supreme Court judgment of 2000 (3) SCC 224 in the case of „Municipal Corporation of Delhi Vs. Female Workers(Muster Roll) and another‟ which said women who constitute almost half of the segment of the society have to be honoured and treated with dignity at cases where they work to earn their livelihood”. “To become a mother is the most natural phenomenon in the life of a woman. Whatever is needed to facilitate the birth of child to a woman who is in service, is in service, the employer has to be considerate and sympathetic towards her and must realize the physical difficulties which a working woman would face in performing her duties at the workplace while carrying a baby in a womb or while rearing up the child after birth”, the Supreme Court had said.

Therefore it can be understood that you are eligible for maternity leave with full benefits even beyond the expiration of the contractual; period.

Every woman employee, whether employed directly or through a contractor, who has actually worked in the establishment for a period of at least 80 days during the 12 months immediately preceding the date of her expected delivery, is entitled to receive maternity benefit.

For calculating the number of days on which a woman has actually worked during the preceding 12 months, the days on which she has been laid off or was on holidays with wages shall also be counted.

There is neither a wage ceiling for coverage under the Act nor there is any restriction as regards the type of work a woman is engaged in.

A perusal of THE MATERNITY BENEFIT ACT, 1961 (53 OF 1961) shall enlighten the concept.