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From Leave to Legal Obligations: Understanding Maternity and Paternity Rights in Mexico

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Employers doing business in Mexico can help ensure a fair and supportive workplace by understanding certain key regulations. For instance, Mexico’s labor laws offer comprehensive protections for employees during pregnancy and...more

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Dads, Diapers and Deadlines: How Singapore’s Parental Leave Reinforcement Redefines Work and Family Life

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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

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Don't ask, do get - employee could "seek" parental leave without formally requesting it

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An employee is protected against being dismissed or subjected to a detriment because they took or sought to take parental leave. The issue for the UK EAT in Hilton Foods Solutions Ltd v Wright was whether an employee had...more

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UK: Changes to Paternity Leave from March 2024

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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

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UK: New Regulations Will Extend Current Redundancy Protections for Individuals Who Are Pregnant or on Maternity, Adoption, or...

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Currently, employees in the UK on statutory maternity, adoption or shared parental leave who are at risk of redundancy have priority rights to be offered a suitable alternative vacancy (but only where such a vacancy exists). ...more

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Work-life balance: new extraordinary leaves and flexible work arrangements for employees in Luxembourg

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The work-life balance of parents and caregivers is at the heart of a new law (hereafter the Law) that has just been passed by the Luxembourg Parliament. The Law (deriving from bill n°8016), which transposes the European...more

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Japan: Employment law update - Amendment of the Childcare and Family Care Leave Act

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To deter employees from leaving their jobs due to childbirth or childcare needs and to enable both men and women to balance work and childcare responsibilities as they deem suitable, Japan’s government passed an amendment to...more

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International Benefits Update – Q2 2022

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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

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Littler Global Guide - Colombia - Q4 2021

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New Law Establishes New Working Hours - New Legislation Enacted - Law 2101 of 2021 was enacted to reduce the workweek in Colombia, to a maximum of 42 hours per week, which may be distributed by mutual agreement...more

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Littler Global Guide - Japan - Q4 2021

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New Paternity Leave Law - New Legislation Enacted - The Child and Family Member Care Leave Act has been revised mainly to create more accessible leave for fathers. The revisions include: (i) a leave of four weeks that can...more

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Littler Global Guide - Netherlands - Q4 2021

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Paid Parental Leave as of August 2, 2022 - New Legislation Enacted - On October 12, 2021, the Dutch Senate approved the Act on Paid Parental Leave, which is introduced as implementation of EU Directive 2019/1158. Currently,...more

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Beijing, Shanghai Implement Leave Changes to Family Planning Regulations

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Beijing and Shanghai have extended maternity leave for eligible females by an additional 30 days and introduced the right to “parental leave,” or extra days off per year, for eligible parents of children under 3 years old....more

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The coalition agreement is out – the guidelines for German labor law are set for the next four years

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On Wednesday, November 24, 2021, the newly formed coalition of the Liberals, Greens and the Social Democrats, which will lead Germany during the next four years, presented its coalition agreement. In negotiations lasting a...more

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Paid Parental Leave

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A Dutch employee is entitled to parental leave of up to 26 times the number of hours worked each week. This leave is currently unpaid, unless other agreements have been made, for example in a collective labour agreement....more

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New Dutch Law Provides Nine Weeks of Paid Parental Leave

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On October 12, 2021, the Dutch Senate approved the Paid Parental Leave Act (in Dutch: Wet betaald ouderschapsverlof, the "Act"), which will enter into force on August 2, 2022. The purpose of the Act is to offer working...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick’s 101 – Employment Law in Germany NEW: Q&A on Family Friendly Rights

Germany scores well on family friendliness in the workplace. Statutory maternity and parental leave rights provide for a rather complex structure of maternity leave (Mutterschutz), parental leave (Elternzeit), parental...more

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Employment News: equal pay, holiday pay, discrimination

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Cashiered – supermarket staff succeed in Supreme Court - To bring an equal pay claim, an employee has to point to a comparator of the opposite sex doing like work, work rated as equivalent or work of equal value. If the...more

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Republic of Labour Law - Irish HR Updates in March

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This week in the Republic of Labour Law, we discuss an upcoming change to Parent’s Leave. Currently, Parent’s Leave entitles each parent to two weeks’ leave during the first year of a child’s life, or in the case of adoption,...more

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Orrick’s 101 – Employment Law in Germany - New: Employers’ Essentials (2021 Edition)

Every player interested or already active in the German market needs to have a working knowledge of the key principles of German employment law which offers a good level of protection to employees. This is especially true for...more

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COVID-19: Chile’s New Law Extends Benefits for Some Parents

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On July 27, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chile enacted legislation for parents on parental leave and for parents and caregivers of children born in or after 2013 (i.e., seven years of age or younger). Specifically, the...more

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Estonia Enacts New Reforms to Its Parental Leave and Benefit System to Better Reconcile Work and Family Life

The latest phase of legislative changes to Estonia’s Family Benefits Act are due to come into effect in July 2020. Legislative changes to the Family Benefits Act were approved in 2017, but the changes have been introduced...more

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Bermuda Extends Parental and Vacation Leave Benefits

As of January 1, 2020, Bermuda employees are entitled to increased paid and unpaid maternity leave, and, for the first time, paid and unpaid paternity leave. Bermuda’s Parliament included the provisions in the Employment...more

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Divergence in Pay Between Women and Men in Shared Parental Pay Is Not Discriminatory, UK Supreme Court Rules

An employer that refused to offer a discretionary pay enhancement to a male employee who had availed himself of the statutory right to take shared parental leave did not run afoul of sex discrimination rules or breach the...more

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UK’s New Bereavement Leave Law for Child Loss or Stillbirth

Parents in the United Kingdom who suffer the loss of a child or a stillbirth are now entitled to two weeks’ bereavement leave under the Parental Bereavement Leave Regulations 2020 (also known as “Jack’s Law”). The campaign...more

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Recent Changes in Hungary’s Employment Laws: Parental Leave, Teenage Employment, Wages, and Noncompete Agreements

Following the trend of recent years, the beginning of the year brought changes to employment legislation in Hungary that went into effect on January 1, 2020. ...more

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