Navigating the Back-to-Work Transition for New Parents with Lori Mihalich-Levin, CEO of Mindful Return: On Record PR
The Conversation You’re Not Having – Part 2: The Fourth Trimester, Parental Leave, and Reengaging After Leave
The Conversation You’re Not Having: Pregnancy, Complications, Miscarriage, and Other Loss at Work
II-25 – Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Employers in 2018
The Shanghai government on August 8, 2025 introduced a significant new policy to combat declining birth rates, an ageing population, and perceived barriers in the workplace for female professionals. The policy aims to benefit...more
Overview - The primary piece of legislation, the Employment Ordinance (the “EO”), prescribes certain basic rights and protection for most employees. The EO applies to every employee engaged under a contract of employment...more
In this issue, we discuss upcoming regulatory changes as well as recent court decisions with far-reaching implications, including case law on the need to replace share awards on a TUPE transfer and a UK Supreme Court ruling...more
Denmark’s parliament recently received an agreement between the Danish Trade Union Confederation and the Confederation of Danish Employers on proposing an expansion of paternity and maternity leave. This September 13, 2021...more
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
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
From September 27, 2019, through October 6, 2019, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) held the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar (“athletics” is what we Americans call “track and...more
JPMorgan recently reached a settlement agreement to pay $5 million to a class of male employees who alleged they were discriminated against based on their gender under a leave policy that granted longer parental leave to...more
Much has been written on the current state of paid parental leave in this country and the need for change. And rightly so. The United States is woefully behind the rest of the world. ...more
Many employers go above and beyond any legal requirements in providing paid or unpaid leave benefits to employees to bond with their child. So what could be bad about that? Well, check your employee handbook. Do you have a...more
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
• The Maryland Healthy Working Families Act is scheduled to go into effect on Feb. 11, 2018, making Maryland the ninth state to mandate paid sick leave for private employers. • The Act requires that Maryland employers with...more
In this edition, we report from around Europe on some interesting case law developments that affect the way employers manage their employees. The range of issues covered shows that, despite the breadth of directives issued by...more
Family benefits and discrimination - In this edition of our Global Employment Law Update we look at the provision of different types of maternity, paternity and family leave across the jurisdictions, highlighting areas...more
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
Regulations implementing the Paid Family Leave Act became effective on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. No substantive changes were made to the proposed regulations that were published back in May 2017....more
Today is Inauguration Day, and it is safe to assume that significant policy and enforcement changes will be made during the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Those changes will include new judges on the federal courts, new...more
This month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance that provides six weeks of parental leave for bonding with a new child at 100% of the employee’s rate of pay (subject to certain caps). The...more
On April 4, 2016, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law paid family leave and statewide increases to the minimum wage, making New York the fourth state to guarantee paid family leave and one of a number of states gradually...more
The United Kingdom (“UK”), comprised of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland, has a population of over 62 million people, is culturally diverse and remains one of leading financial and service centers of the world....more