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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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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 ...
Extending enhanced maternity benefits to men
...maternity benefits meet these criteria. It is therefore arguable that employers who offer enhanced benefits to women on maternity leave should extend them to men on paternity leave to avoid discrimina...
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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...
Government takes steps to ensure furlough does not affect statutory payments during maternity and other family leave
...maternity and other family leave The government has introduced legislation to ensure that furlough does not affect an employee’s entitlement to statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parenta...
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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...
Recent Cases
Employment Tribunal to Refer Questions on Surrogacy to the ECJ
...leave, reduced hours and unpaid leave the Claimant argued that she had been subjected to a detriment in respect of the refusal to allow her to take maternity leave and discriminated against because of...
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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...
Flexible maternity and paternity leave: Getting it right - as published in Edge online
...maternity leave doesn’t generally constitute unlawful direct discrimination against men. If, however, the woman is on some other form of parental leave (not maternity leave), the benefit will have to ...
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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 ...
Recent Cases
Redundancy: Maternity Leave and Suitable Alternative Roles
...Maternity Leave and Suitable Alternative Roles In Simpson v Endsleigh Insurance Services Ltd, Ms Simpson was employed as an insurance consultant in London for Endsleigh. Whilst on maternity leave, t...
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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...
Tina Wisener: Netflix premieres 12 months paid parental leave for all, but can UK employers pick and choose who gets it? - as published in HR review
...maternity leave, as preferential treatment of women on maternity leave does not generally amount to unlawful discrimination against men. If the woman is not on maternity leave, but some other form of ...
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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...
Could Netflix-style unlimited parental leave work for employers? - as published in Personnel Today
...maternity leave, as preferential treatment of women on maternity leave does not generally amount to unlawful direct discrimination against men. Such a policy could be indirectly discriminatory, but po...
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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...
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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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Good Work Plan: Government consults on proposals to support families
...leave and pay currently available to parents. These include shared parental leave and pay, maternity leave and pay, paternity leave and pay and unpaid parental leave. Any changes it makes will need to...
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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.