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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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Successful Appeal Avoided Indirect Sex Discrimination
...maternity leave in September 2009 and on 12 April 2010 submitted a flexible working application to work part-time hours on her return in August. This was rejected on 17 June on the basis that sales ex...
Are the Days of the Zero Hours Contract Numbered? - as published in Tolley's Employment Law Newsletter
...leave and sick pay and are ineligible for its Bonus Share Scheme. The claimant argues that although described as a "casual" worker, the reality of her working arrangement entitled her to be treated no...
Managing Maternity Leave - Verity Saxon comments for Making Money
...Maternity Leave - Verity Saxon comments for Making Money Read Verity's comments here.
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...
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...
No Collective Redundancy Consultation Obligations on Expiry of Fixed-term Contracts
...maternity or sick leave cover. The employment judge held that collective consultation obligations applied as they had been dismissed ‘for a reason which did not relate to them as individuals’. He cons...
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...
Record-breaking £4.5 Million Discrimination Award
...maternity leave not long after her appointment . The award included £56,000 for psychiatric injury and £30,000 for injury to feelings but the bulk of the award was for future loss of earnings (£941,8...
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...
Creative use of workers during difficult times - Atypical workers - HR MAGAZINE
...leave √ √ Working time rights √ √ Unlawful deduction from wages √ √ Flexible working requests √ X Maternity leave and pay (and similar parental rights) √ X Disc...
The shift towards 'gender neutral' parenting - HR MAGAZINE
...maternity leave should extend them to men on paternity leave, otherwise it might amount to sex discrimination. This is unless employers can show that such benefits are intended to protect the biologic...
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...