The Conversation You’re Not Having – Part 2: The Fourth Trimester, Parental Leave, and Reengaging After Leave
II-25 – Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Employers in 2018
Episode 10: Pregnancy Discrimination Insights (Hint: It's Not Just About The FMLA)
Singapore is once again taking significant steps towards supporting families with the adoption of the new, extended parental leave entitlements announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in his National Day speech on 18 August...more
The Indonesian government has enacted a new law aiming to improve parental and child welfare. The new Law 4/2024 aims to ensure that working mothers enjoy equal rights in the workplace and also addresses high mortality rates...more
Research by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in 2023 shows that paid maternity and paternity leave increased by five percent last year, with 32% of employers now offering paid paternity leave. Furthermore,...more
Key developments in UK employment law in May included an Employment Appeal Tribunal finding that a volunteer can be a worker if they are entitled to be remunerated. The Employment Appeal Tribunal also held that a trivial...more
Singapore recently made three new changes in employment practices that stand to impose higher standards on employers. These three major legislative updates may have implications for employer handbooks and policies. ...more
April was a smorgasbord of developments, with a UK Supreme Court case on detriments and industrial action and two EAT decisions on international jurisdiction. In Parliament, another family-friendly bill is proceeding with...more
New right to take carer’s leave - The Carer's Leave Act 2023 and The Carer’s Leave Regulations 2024 give employees in the UK a new right to take “carer’s leave” with effect from 6 April 2024. An employee who has a...more
In this month’s instalment, our team discuss changes to employment laws coming into effect in April 2024. We also discuss recent findings by the Employment Appeal Tribunal that a respondent failed to make reasonable...more
The UK Government has laid draft sets of Regulations before Parliament which are due to come into force on March 8, 2024, and will make changes to the current statutory paternity leave scheme....more
Overview - The primary piece of legislation, the Employment Ordinance (the “EO”), prescribes certain basic rights and protection for most employees. The EO applies to every employee engaged under a contract of employment...more
The following paper aims to succinctly address the question "Under what circumstances is an employee entitled to paid leave?” This guide offers an overview of legal aspects of paid leave in the requisite jurisdictions....more
Our January update includes a new Court of Session case giving (a degree of) certainty on settlement agreements prohibiting future unknown claims and a new case on constructive dismissal focusing on the rules around delaying...more
We typically expect employment law reform to move slowly during the summer holiday period, but it seems that progress has been possible this year (perhaps without the distraction of consistently good weather in the UK). In...more
In the second quarter of 2022, many countries, including Japan and the Netherlands, focused on expanding childcare and family leave provisions. New Zealand introduced a new holiday, and some countries updated their mandatory...more
Se admitió por la Corte Constitucional de Colombia una demanda de inconstitucionalidad donde se propone la revisión del artículo 2 de la Ley 2114 del 2021. Norma que en su momento modificó el artículo 236 del Código...more
On this episode of Real Talk: Lowenstein’s Women’s Initiative Network Podcast, Megan Monson, Nicole Fulfree, Rachel Moseson Dikovics, and Amanda Cipriano continue their conversation on pregnancy and related issues in the...more
Parental leave was, once again, in the forefront of public discourse, as the internet debated the appropriateness of Parag Agrawal, the CEO of Twitter, announcing his intention to take “a few weeks” off work following the...more
The Impact of "Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021" on Employer's Arbitration Provisions - On March 3, 2022, President Biden signed into law H.R. 4445, “Ending Forced Arbitration...more
Denmark’s parliament recently received an agreement between the Danish Trade Union Confederation and the Confederation of Danish Employers on proposing an expansion of paternity and maternity leave. This September 13, 2021...more
People have many questions about their rights to parental leave, especially with respect to their workplaces. What are your rights as parents of newborns? We have compiled some of the key answers to prevalent questions about...more
Con la expedición de la Ley 2114 del 29 de julio de 2021, el Congreso de la República trajo cambios relevantes en la forma en la que operaban las licencias de paternidad y maternidad en Colombia. Es fundamental que tanto...more
L’Assemblée nationale du Québec a récemment adopté le projet de loi no 51, Loi visant principalement à améliorer la flexibilité du régime d'assurance parentale afin de favoriser la conciliation famille-travail (la « Loi »)....more
Quebec’s National Assembly recently enacted Bill 51, An Act mainly to improve the flexibility of the parental insurance plan in order to promote family-work balance (Act). The Act promotes family-work balance and the sharing...more
The annual increases to the compensation limits applying to certain UK employment claims have now been published and will take effect in April 2020. An Order laid before Parliament will increase the maximum compensation which...more