parental leave

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parental leave

the right of a parent to take time off work to care for a child. In the UK these rights have recently been enshrined in law following a European Directive on this issue. Such leave is unpaid and is restricted to employees who have at least one year's employment. See MATERNITY RIGHTS, PATERNITY RIGHTS.
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While women in full-time employment receive statutory maternity pay from their firms, self-employed women receive maternity allowance from the Government.
Self-employed mums can claim maternity support
While it's definitely worth claiming maternity allowance if you're self-employed, be aware that the benefit is a lot less generous than statutory maternity pay.
Mums-to-be could claim maternity allowance of nearly [pounds sterling]150-a-week - even if they are unemployed; You can start your claim from the 26th week of your pregnancy while the earliest you can get your first payment is 11 weeks before your baby is due
Looking at both cases the Court of Appeal was asked to consider whether the failure to match pay in the case of share parental leave to the level of maternity pay amounted to sex discrimination.
Cases highlight parental leave issues; The latest news from HR, recruitment, employment law and staff issues by Ken Symon
As well as maternity pay, parents can deduct any payments they have received for statutory paternity, shared parental or adoption pay up to a value of 100 a week.
United Kingdom : New parents could miss out on almost 500 from their tax credits
The scheme has been brought in 18 months after Labour councillor Brigid Jones, 31 who is now the city's deputy leader, complained that she would have to give up work to start a family as there is no maternity pay, sick pay or pension scheme.
News Councillors to get better maternity pay than staff
"We conclude therefore that both Ms Edwards and (Employee A) have experienced detriment by late payment of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), which had a significant impact, and we uphold the complaints of victimisation."
Six nursery employees were unfairly dismissed, tribunal finds
For the remaining 33 weeks of their statutory maternity pay, they can only claim PS139.58 a week, or 90% of their average weekly earnings - whichever is lower.
Maternity leave IN EUROPE; WEEKS OF DECENTLY-PAID MATERNITY LEAVE OFFERED IN EACH COUNTRY
Ros Bragg, director of UK charity Maternity Action, said: "Without adequate maternity pay, women's choices Ireland decently-paid leavey ut ity es are limited and many cannot afford to take their leave entitlements.
Maternity leave IN EUROPE; WEEKS OF DECENTLY-PAID MATERNITY LEAVE OFFERED IN EACH COUNTRY
Statutory sick pay will increase to 89.35 [pounds sterling] and statutory maternity pay and pay for other family leave will increased.
Employment law lowdown: AOP employment counsel, Heidi Blakey and employment paralegal, Chloe Hucker on employment law developments in 2016, and what 2017 has in store
VODAFONE launched a "pioneering" global maternity pay scheme yesterday to stop thousands of women leaving the workforce every year and save businesses billions.
Phone giant keeps mum; MATERNITY DEAL TO RETAIN STAFF
A NEW mum with a fake ID claimed PS7,000 maternity pay from Morrisons before they found out she should never have been working in Wales.
Mum who should never have been working in Wales claimed PS7,000
Looking at the time that I have spent in the last 12 months: Pensions auto -enrolment - researching, talking to advisors, filling in forms, providing information (three days); Real Time Information payroll - including additional time sending reports and liaising with HM Revenue & Customs re their misallocation of payments/ failure to give credit for Maternity Pay (two days); Pre-employment right to work checks for new employees (one hour); Government generated surveys (two days); Money laundering checks on new clients and routine updates (six days); Downtime Health and Safety reviews/PAT testing etc (one day); VAT returns (four days); Other bits and pieces, including keeping up to speed on changes (three days).
Give 'unpaid civil servants' a break

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