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Managing Maternity Leave - Verity Saxon comments for Making Money
...Maternity Leave - Verity Saxon comments for Making Money Read Verity's comments here.
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Enhancing maternity pay but not shared parental pay is not direct sex discrimination
...leave with a woman’s treatment while on additional maternity leave. If that’s right, it is possible that employers who enhance maternity pay during additional maternity (i.e.after 26 weeks' leav...
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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 Situation Identified Due To Maternity Leave: Dismissal Automatically Unfair
...Maternity Leave: Dismissal Automatically Unfair The EAT has ruled that where a redundancy situation becomes apparent because an employee is on maternity leave and that employee is selected for redund...
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ECJ Rules on Surrogacy and Entitlement to Maternity Leave
...maternity leave as the woman was not pregnant and was not entitled to take maternity leave. The ECJ’s decisions in these cases confirm that UK law does not have to provide paid leave to mothers who re...
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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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No Discrimination Where Employee Dismissed for Absence due to Post-Natal Depression
...maternity leave, the claim failed. L’s sex discrimination also failed. Where pregnancy-related sickness arises during maternity leave and continues after the end of maternity leave, an employer is ...
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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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Paying women on maternity leave more than men on shared parental leave lawful
...maternity leave more than men on shared parental leave lawful Employers who pay enhanced maternity pay to women on maternity leave but only statutory pay to men on shared parental leave are not acting...
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Tribunal wrong to decide that enhancing maternity pay but not shared parental pay was not indirect sex discrimination
...maternity but not shared parental leave should consider the aims and benefits of doing so. Whilst encouraging retention rates among women returning from maternity leave might justify this practice (fo...
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Employers can pay more during adoption leave than shared parental leave
...leave less than a woman who took maternity leave or adoption leave. The employment tribunal rejected his claim, ruling that he could not compare himself to a woman on maternity leave or adoption leave...
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Employers do not have to provide childcare vouchers during maternity leave
...maternity leave The EAT has ruled that employers who provide childcare vouchers under a salary sacrifice arrangement are not obliged to provide them during maternity leave. Speedread Employers who p...
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Redundancy and Maternity Leave: Extent of Obligation to Offer Alternative Employment
...Maternity Leave: Extent of Obligation to Offer Alternative Employment Failure to offer a suitable alternative vacancy to a redundant employee who was on maternity leave did not necessarily amount to d...
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Failure to enhance pay for man seeking shared parental leave was direct sex discrimination
...leave can only compare himself with a woman on shared parental leave, not a woman on maternity leave. On that basis there was no less favourable treatment as men and women on shared parental leave we...
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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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Failure to Pay Enhanced Pay to Man on Additional Paternity Leave Not Discrimination
...leave, even though it paid full pay to women on maternity leave. In Shuter v Ford Motor Co, Ford’s maternity policy provided women on maternity leave with full pay for up to 52 weeks. Its additional...
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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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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...
Employees returning from maternity and other family leave after 10 June can be furloughed
...maternity and other family leave after 10 June can be furloughed The government last night announced that employees returning from family leave over the coming months will be eligible for furlough. Th...
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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. ...