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No TUPE Transfer For Employee on Long Term Sick Leave
...Leave An employee on long term sick leave who was not expected to return to work did not transfer to a new service provider under TUPE. Speedread An employee on long term sick leave who was not exp...
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Are your employment contracts ready for 6 April?
...leave (on top of sick leave and holiday), for example maternity and paternity leave the length and conditions of any probationary period all benefits entitlement to training whethe...
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Collective redundancies: no priority treatment for pregnant workers
...maternity leave has the right to be offered any suitable available vacancy. Employers are required to provide written reasons for dismissing a pregnant worker or one who is on maternity leave, b...
Getting girls on top: Three ways to resolve gender inequality at work
...leave. Enhancing shared parental pay to the same level as maternity pay could encourage more fathers to take leave, enabling more women to return earlier should they wish. Fathers also fear th...
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Round-up of April 2020 employment law changes
...maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay increases The prescribed rate for statutory maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay increases to £151.20 per week (up from £1...
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Flexible working affects mums’ ability to progress their career
...maternity leave felt that they might not return to work. What makes a family friendly company? The survey asked what factors make a ‘family friendly company’. Highest rated were: flexib...
Rejecting a flexible working request - Implications for employers
...maternity leave. A few months before the end of her maternity leave, Ms Glover made a flexible working application to work three fixed days a week, which was rejected around the time that her maternit...
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Gender Pay Gap Reporting Obligations in Force from April
...maternity, other parental leave or sick leave must be excluded. This addresses the concern that pay gap figures will be skewed if an employer has a lot of female employees on maternity leave on the s...
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Government backtracks on automatic expiry of EU derived laws and outlines employment law reforms
...Maternity and Parental Leave etc Regulations 1999 Paternity and Adoption Leave etc Regulations 2002 Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 Fixed-term Employees (...
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Discriminatory shared parental pay policy: father awarded £27,000 compensation
...leave policy provided enhanced pay for mothers, primary adopters and first surrogate parents on shared parental leave. They could receive up to 26 weeks’ full pay, followed by 13 weeks’ paid at the s...
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Labour’s 2017 Election Manifesto – For the Many, Not the Few
...leave to four weeks and extend the period of maternity pay to 12 months (from 39 weeks). It will extend the 30 hours of free childcare to include all two year olds (and consult on extending childcare ...
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Pregnant Workers may be Protected Before Informing Employer of Pregnancy
...maternity leave the right to be offered any suitable available vacancy. The Advocate General’s opinion suggests that women should be given the same priority treatment if their role becomes redun...
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“Change Britain’s Future”: the Liberal Democrats' 2017 Manifesto
...leave and shared parental leave “day one rights” (currently 26 weeks’ service is required); introduce an additional one month “use it or lose it” period of shared parental leave for fathers; fun...
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Reasonable adjustments: no need to show adjustment will work
...maternity leave her error rate rose due, she claimed, to the change in supervisor. The Trust began a formal review procedure at the end of which it dismissed her on grounds of capability. She claime...
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Do employers have to provide facilities for employees to express breastmilk?
...maternity leave, Ms Mellor informed the school that she was still breastfeeding her baby and would need a private room to express her breastmilk. Despite reminders, the school failed to provide this. ...
UPDATED: Coronavirus job retention scheme - what you need to know
...leave? Employees on unpaid leave cannot be furloughed, unless they were placed on unpaid leave after 28 February. Employees on sick leave or self-isolating? Employees on sick leave or self-isolatin...
Y is there a problem? - as published in New Law Journal
...leave which becomes available in April 2015. Shared parental leave gives both parents the opportunity to share up to 12 months of leave in relation to the birth or adoption of a child. Both parents wi...
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - what you need to know
...leave? Employees on unpaid leave cannot be furloughed, unless they were placed on unpaid leave after 28 February. Employees on sick leave? Employees on sick leave or self-isolating should get Statu...
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Government announces reforms to workers’ rights in latest Good Work Plan
...leave and pay, other leave such as maternity and paternity leave, length and conditions of any probationary period, all remuneration (not just pay) and which specific days and time workers are require...
Working ‘When Required’ - as published in the Law Society Gazette
...maternity leave? For employment lawyers the contracts even raise a core conundrum of whether the worst of such contracts can amount to an employment relationship at all, given that obligations to prov...