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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It cannot help but be noticed that there is a lengthy gap in the development of parental leave in New Zealand with seven years between the first two Acts, and then another 15 years before paid parental leave was introduced.

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Usually parents need to give at least eight weeks' notice in writing to their employer if they want to take shared parental leave, and must include certain information in this notice.

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You are entitled to take unpaid parental leave if you've worked for at least a year for your employer, you have a child under 18 and you give your employer 21 days' notice.

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Parental leave was initially introduced in Ireland in 1998 dads' paid leave e er to allow parents to take unpaid leave to look after young children.

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These results just reinforce the simple fact that paid parental leave promotes employee retention with no negative effects on the company.

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In addition, the firm will provide other benefits for attorneys when they go back to work after the parental leave.