Parental Leave in UK Law
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Green paper boosts parental leave.
...Businesses could be asked to provide two weeks' paid paternity leave, six months' paid maternity leave and to extend unpaid maternity leave so that new mothers could stay at home for a year, under proposals in the government's green paper on working ......
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The Impact of a Large Parental Leave Benefit Reform on the Timing of Birth around the Day of Implementation*
The introduction of the German parental leave benefit (Elterngeld) applied to all children born on 1 January, 2007 or later. The Elterngeld considerably changed the amount of transfers to families ...
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Early Career Researchers’ Experiences of Post-Maternity and Parental Leave Provision in UK Politics and International Studies Departments: A Heads of Department and Early Career Researcher Survey
Supporting increasing equality and diversity in the recruitment and retention of Early Career Researchers from the widest pool of talent available is high on the agenda of universities and policy m...
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Child Care Leave 2.0 – Suggestions for the improvement of the EU Maternity and Parental Leave Directives from a rights perspective
In August 2015, the European Commission launched its ‘Roadmap for a new start to address the challenges of work-life balance faced by working families’. Whilst it now seems quite serious about sett...
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Dips and Floors in Workplace Training: Gender Differences and Supervisors
This article provides a detailed decomposition analysis of the gender differences in workplace training throughout the working life with a particular focus on parental leave and supervisors using p...... ... training throughout the working life with a particular focus on parental leave and supervisors using personnel records from a large German firm ... ...
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Overview of recent cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (November 2020-March 2021)
In this reporting period (November 2020-March 2021), five cases will be presented. The first case is INPS v WS (C-302/19), dealing with the Italian legislation that excludes Single Permit holders f...... ... It concerns an interpretation of the Framework Agreement on parental leave in the light of the Luxembourg legislation, which requires parents ... ...
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Corruption, Bureaucratic Failure and Social Policy Priorities
This article argues that bureaucratic capacity – the competence and reliability of the national bureaucracy – matters to the allocation of public spending among welfare state programmes since it is...... ... parental ... active labour market policy spending, but not on parental leave" benefits ... Keywords: welfare state; social policy; quality of\xC2" ... ...
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The impact of the Employment Relations Act 1999 on Scotland’s voluntary sector
Since the 1980s, public policy developments have promoted the role of the voluntary sector in a variety of UK settings. In parallel, there has been a growing interest in the impacts of employment r...... ... unfair dismissals, trade union recognition and parental leave. An underlying issue isthe emergence of personnel management ... ...
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How Gender-Neutral are the Nordic Countries Really? Father-Friendliness in Leave Schemes for Families with Children
Significant changes regarding work and family patterns in post-industrial societies have rocked the foundations of the gendered division of labour in family life. Nevertheless, the focus of attenti...... ... is article redirect s attention to the role of men as fathers b y exploring the economic incentives for fathers to take up parental leave in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finl and, Norway and Sweden). It also highlights the great variety of ci rcumstances relating to education ... ...
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Finnish Policies for Reconciling Work and Family and the Usages of Europe
Drawing on the ‘usages of Europe’ approach, this paper examines the Europeanisation of work/family reconciliation policies in Finland, an EU member since 1995. More specifically, the paper analyses...... ... reconciliation policies, i.e. childcare services and family leave benefi ts, Europe has played an important role in the emergence of ... in organisations and incentives for the more equal use of parental ... ...
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