TITLE:
Maternity Benefit Practices at NGOs in Bangladesh: Laws and Implementation
AUTHORS:
Omar Faroque, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Md. Obaidur Rahman, Md. Mominul Islam
KEYWORDS:
Maternity Benefit; Descriptive Statistics; Zero Order Correlation; Non-Government Organizations (NGOs); Bangladesh
JOURNAL NAME:
Beijing Law Review,
Vol.4 No.4,
December
30,
2013
ABSTRACT: Maternity leave
is an important benefit to the female employees and it plays important role to
increase organizational loyalty, efficiency and job satisfaction, particularly
in the Non-Government Organizations (NGOs). The objective of the study is to
assess the laws and implementation of the maternity benefits at the diverse
NGOs on different working echelon inBangladesh. Descriptive statistics
and zero order correlation method have been performed using the data haul out
from one hundred female employees experiencing at least one child at the
different NGOs inKurigram District,Bangladesh.
Among all female employees, salary structure and the managerial position are
not satisfactory at NGOs in Bangladesh, although higher education of females
plays an important role to get the job. In case of maternity benefits, all of
them have got three or four months as maternity leave period and a significant
number have not got any types of payment during maternity leave (27%), have not
enjoyed maternity leave properly (24%), and have been terminated, sent away or
expelled etc. due to maternity leave (19%). In addition, an inverse relation of
duration of maternity leave with age (26.4%) and length of service (34.1%) has
also been identified i.e., duration of maternity leave decreases with
increasing employees’ age and length of services. In our study, evidently there
are no NGO practices laws of maternity benefit properly in Bangladesh. Therefore,
every NGO should administer and implement the Laws of maternity benefit
properly.