Returning to work after you've had maternity leave can be confusing - especially when it comes to your rights and what you're entitled to ask to change. You may want to do some days working from home, or try and negotiate a new contract where you spend less time in the office. Karren...
When will it start? To work out when your new maternity leave will start, you first need to work out the date you are due back at work from your current maternity leave. Decide whether you want to take your full entitlement, if not, you need to give at least eight weeks’ notice if...
Married male employees are entitled to take seven calendar days' paternity leave on full pay when their lawful wife has a child or has a miscarriage. (See Paternity leave) Other than maternity and paternity leave, working parents do not generally have any entitlement to take paid or unpaid par...
Mr Hinds said: “If people (are) talking about their careers and whether they are able to stay, or when maternity comes along, it's really important that everyone is doing as much as they can to facilitate flexibility."
In the past, when someone needed to take a leave of absence, corporations could just fire the person. Obviously, this is devastating on the lives of hard working people who just needed a short reprieve from work to care for a loved one or recover from an emergency. ...
The policy might say employees have a tardiness grace period, such as five minutes in the morning and two minutes when returning from breaks or lunch. If an employee uses her grace period excessively, such as more than 12 times during the year, the lateness results in an unexcused absence....
Exile: In 2016 the government ordered immigration officials to take unspecified legal action to prevent former opposition leader Sam Rainsy from returning to the country. He had gone into exile in France in 2015, when the government issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of defamation while...
but changed its stance when Romania and Bulgaria joined in 2007. The Conservative government agreed to take only20,000 refugees by 2020from the civil war in Syria (of which 2011 have been admitted to date), even though the war and the ‘Islamic State’ partly result from the US...
Helga was already a mother when she went to college in California but returned home many years ago, to what she calls her “beautiful country”. “To give birth in Iceland is wonderful,” she admits. “We have very good childcare, and I love the equal parenting maternity leave. All the...
92). The proposed legislation also suggests that the neighboring countries are safe in terms of access to a fair asylum procedure; however, most refugees who enter Slovenia come from Hungary and Croatia, the two countries that are known for their push-back policies and keep returning the ...