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Government rejects call for better pregnancy and maternity protection
...maternity leave. The Committee also called for the extension of maternity–related rights to workers, including the right to paid time off for antenatal appointments. The Government indicated that th...
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Redundancy protection to be extended for pregnant women and new parents
...maternity leave? Before making a woman on maternity leave redundant, an employer must offer her any suitable available vacancy it has. The Government has confirmed that it will extend this protection...
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Online Tool for Calculating Entitlement to Maternity, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave
...Maternity, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has launched an online calculator which enables employees to work out if they qualify for maternity, p...
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Shared Parental Leave and Pay: Draft Regulations Published
...maternity or adoption leave. Maternity Leave and Adoption Leave (Curtailment of Statutory Rights to Leave) Regulations 2014 These Regulations set out how maternity and adoption leave can be brought ...
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Statutory Payments to Increase from April 2017
...maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave increases to £140.98 per week with effect from 2 April. For full details, together with the annual changes to compensation limits, see o...
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Adoption Leave and Pay Changes: Employer’s Technical Guidance
...leave Brought statutory adoption pay into line with statutory maternity pay by increasing the rate for the first six weeks to 90% of earnings Extend the right to adoption leave and pay to parents wh...
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Shared Parental Leave and Pay: Employers’ Technical Guide Published
...leave and pay system works; details of eligibility criteria; an explanation of how to end maternity or adoption leave or pay in order to enter the shared parental leave system; details of how shar...
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Share the joy: Bill extending shared parental leave and pay to self-employed
...leave and pay to self-employed Labour MP, Tracy Brabin, is hoping to extend shared parental leave and pay to self-employed contractors. The MP presented the Shared Parental Leave and Pay ...
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Government considering extending redundancy protections for women and new parents
...maternity leave. It is also considering whether parents returning to work from adoption leave, shared parental leave and possibly longer periods of parental leave should be protected for six mon...
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Government backs Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill
...maternity leave and until six months after their return to work. Parents taking adoption or shared parental leave will be protected while on leave and until six months after their return. ...
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Government confirms new right to neonatal care leave and pay
...leave will be taken after maternity and paternity leave. The Government is still considering how the leave will interact with other forms of family leave, such as shared parental leaveIn terms of noti...
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April 2015 Changes in Employment Law
...leave will be available in respect of children due to be born or placed for adoption on or after 5 April 2015. At the same time, additional paternity leave and pay will be abolished in respect of bab...
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Parental Leave Extension
...Leave Extension The right to take unpaid parental leave is being extended from 5 April 2015. Currently parents can take up to 18 weeks’ unpaid time off per child for the purpose of caring for that ch...
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Fathers and the workplace: Paternal leave improved rights for fathers
...leave and pay with a separate right for fathers to take a period of paternal leave in their own right, without affecting the mother’s entitlements to maternity leave and pay. A period of 12 weeks' lea...
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Family friendly rights: an update
...leave. Employees who exercise the right to take neonatal care leave will be protected from dismissal and detrimental treatment as a result of taking leave. The new neonatal leave and pay entit...
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Tackling gender inequality: Government Equalities Office outlines plans
...maternity leave, following its consultation on this issue. How will the government address shared parental leave and pay? The Government’s review of shared parental leave and pay is currently ...
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Lukewarm response from Government to Fathers and the workplace report
...leave entitlement? The Committee recommended replacing shared parental leave and pay with a separate right for fathers to take 12 weeks' paternal leave, paid at 90% of salary for four weeks, with the...
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Children and Families Act 2014 Receives Royal Assent
...leave and pay, which allows a mother to bring her maternity leave to an end and opt into the shared parental leave system and share leave with the child’s father, is expected to come into force where ...
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Injury to feelings awards: Increases from 6 April 2018
...maternity or other family leave or the exercise of working time rights (including holiday and rest breaks). The same bands apply in detrimental treatment cases.
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Shared Parental Leave to be Extended to Grandparents
...Leave to be Extended to Grandparents The Government has announced that it will extend shared parental leave and pay to working grandparents by 2018. It will consult on the detail of its proposal in t...