Catholic Care, a Leeds-based adoption agency, has won a high court appeal allowing it to ignore sexual orientation regulations and so exclude same-sex partners who wish to adopt. The judgement is quite narrow and will require further argument (at the Charity Commission) before ‘Catholic Care’ will have their way & are permitted to discriminate against […]
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Post created on: March 18th, 2010
Nearly 1 in five working men (18%) would take all of the proposed six month paternity leave, according to a YouGov survey commissioned by the mobile phone company Orange. The research found that money concerns were the main factor preventing those who would not take all the leave from taking it (47%), with a quarter […]
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Post created on: March 17th, 2010
News that didn’t appear to receive significant coverage within the media this week will give parents more rights to time-off. Adopting the directive descriptively entitled “16945/09 + 5922/1/10 REV 1” without a vote, the European Council agreed on Monday (8 March) to extended workers’ rights to parental leave from three to four months for each […]
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Post created on: March 10th, 2010
Further to the European Court of Justice decisions in the cases of Stringer and Pereda, the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills published guidance on the interaction between annual leave and sick leave.
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Post created on: February 24th, 2010
A survey published by the Department of Business Innovation & Skills exposes the fact a significant number of employers are not confident with their employment law obligations. From a study covering more than 300 small business owners [1], less than a third (32 per cent) report feeling confident in their understanding of employment law; 34 […]
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Post created on: February 22nd, 2010
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