Employer Liability Issues, Child Care, Employee Benefits

OBBBA’s impact on employee benefit plans, programs, and arrangements

McDermott Will & Schulte on 7/29/2025

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. This sweeping tax and spending package affects large swaths of the US economy. Though reduced significantly from the original House...more

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

Hogan Lovells on 4/13/2023

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

International Benefits Update – Q2 2022

Woodruff Sawyer on 7/25/2022

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

Paid Parental Leave

Hogan Lovells on 10/18/2021

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

Indian Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 2/23/2018

Under a newly amended law, many employers in India are required to increase paid maternity leave and offer on-site day care services; some of the new standards await clarification. Providing crèche (day care) facilities is...more

India Makes Significant Changes to Maternity Benefit Entitlements

Fisher Phillips on 8/10/2017

This year, India became one of the most generous providers of maternity benefits in the world when it extended the period of maternity leave available to eligible working mothers from twelve (12) weeks to twenty-six (26)...more