Maternity benefits applicability

Hi CA's

We are a professional recruitment company and provide contractual resources to IT clients. People are recuited on our payrolls but they work at our client's place. We pay salaries to the person add mark-up to the same and bill it to the client.

Now we have a resource who is going on Maternity leave from December. As per the Maternity Act we need to pay her salary for 3 months. Wanted to check whether we can receover the amount paid from our client or not !!

Please respond quickly :)

Pragati Jain 

Chartered Accountant

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