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In this month’s instalment, our team discuss the regulations for the Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act 2003 and the Carer’s Leave Act 2003 that were laid before Parliament on 11 December 2023. We...more
On November 13, 2023, Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi signed Act No. 129-2023, increasing the duration of maternity leave for government employees. The new Act amends various laws that regulate this leave in the public...more
Not in my opinion. The following scenario was in this morning's Miss Manners column. You may need a paid subscription to access, but here's the gist: Employee is 20-something, happily married, and just learned that she is...more
A new federal law, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), goes into effect on June 27, 2023. The PWFA requires covered employers to provide “reasonable accommodations” to a worker’s known limitations related to pregnancy,...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
On this episode of the Women’s Initiative Network Podcast: Real Talk, Megan Monson, Nicole Fulfree, Rachel Moseson Dikovics, and Amanda Cipriano focus on challenges that female professionals encounter in the workplace related...more
California law provides various leaves and accommodations to pregnant employees, and to employees who have recently had babies and are breastfeeding or expressing milk. The requirements of each law and interactions with other...more
An employee is on maternity leave and it does not look like she is going to be returning to work. Should you go ahead and terminate her employment during the maternity leave? Wait until it is over to terminate her employment?...more
Erin Callan Montella was the CFO of Lehman Brothers in the months before it collapsed in 2008. After leaving Wall Street, marrying and having a daughter, she wrote a memoir, Full Circle, about the balance between work and...more
In May 2017, the German Federal Government passed a reform known as the German Maternity Protection Act, aimed at protecting the health and well-being of the woman and her (unborn) child during pregnancy, after birth and...more
A-list celebrity George Clooney, long considered Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor, surprised the world when he married international human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin back in 2014 after decades of assuring journalists,...more
Flesh on the bones? Pay gap reporting guidance published - When the draft Gender Pay Gap Reporting Regulations (the Regulations) were published in December 2016, the government promised further guidance to help employers...more
Every other employment attorney has been offering their opinion on how the election of Donald Trump will impact employment law. So, I’d feel left out of this riveting discussion if I didn’t offer my two cents about how a...more
As part of the entry into force of the Labour Act, the Proskauer firm offers a series of focus on the provisions already in force today could impact the daily lives of companies. Two provisions in force to date,...more
Recientemente, el Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (en adelante IMSS) publicó a través de su página de internet la Circular 10/10 por medio de la cual se dieron a conocer nuevas normas operativas para la expedición de...more
The Mexican Social Security Institute (“Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social,” hereinafter “IMSS”) recently published Circular 10/16 to announce new regulations for the issuance of maternity leave certificates. These...more
Following the California Supreme Court’s guidance in Harris v. City of Santa Monica (February 2013 FEB) that an employment action is illegal only where bias is a “substantial motivating factor” for the action, a California...more