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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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Failing to conduct appropriate risk assessment for breastfeeding mothers is sex discrimination
...maternity leave and constitutes direct sex discrimination. Facts In Ramos v Servicio Galego de Saude, Ms Ramos worked as an accident and emergency nurse. She informed her employer that s...
Should employers always look on the Brightside?
...maternity or adoption leave are entitled to written reasons for dismissal without requesting them and irrespective of their length of service. The written reasons the employer provides can then be use...
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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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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...
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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...
Sacrifice salary for pension contributions - save tax and national insurance contributions
...maternity/paternity leave (where entitlement to statutory payments depends on the level of pay). If you would like to discuss any of these issues in more detail, or would like to discuss pension matt...
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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 must be pro-active in enabling staff to take holiday, ECJ rules
...leave year in question, for example due to being on sick leave, maternity leave or because the employer has not provided for paid holiday in the contract. This case appears to extend that principle to...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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Queen’s speech: workplace issues
...maternity leave. The extension is likely to mean the woman will have this right from the moment she informs her employer she is pregnant until six months after the end of her maternity leave. The prev...
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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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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...
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...
Job retention scheme: welcome clarifications as HMRC updates guidance again
...maternity and other statutory leave The guidance clarifies that for employees returning from maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption, parental bereavement and sick leave after 28 February 202...