Sentences with phrase «about parental leave policies»

The purpose of this review is to underscore what we do and do not know about parental leave policies as factors that affect parent — child interactions and young children's development, and to identify potentially helpful complementary policy changes and service approaches.

First, the Committee prepared and disseminated a survey to legal employers in the New York City area about their parental leave policies and practices for attorneys and then analyzed the results of the survey.

Not exact matches

It's not just about having one issue fixed, like establishing better parental leave policies or solving for the wage gap, it's addressing all of these small things that add up to a bigger problem.

Before your meeting, learn about labour laws and your company's policies on maternity and parental leave.

The policy is still relatively new, and so has yet to take a firm foothold in many workplaces yet alone families, but with modern dads wanting to be more involved than ever, we wanted to find out the specific reasons why more shared parental leave pay wouldn't necessarily mean more take - up, and why so few new parents were having those conversations about it in the first place.

Thoughts about family segue into analytical policy on flexible parental leave, the gender pay gap, the merits of a universal basic income and the shocking amount of unpaid work done by women (# 1,019 trillion 2014).

At the start of the month, there was widespread reporting about the poor take up by men of shared parental leave — a policy introduced in April 2015 providing men with the opportunity to care full time for their new baby.

The issue of whether it is discriminatory to enhance maternity pay but not shared parental pay remains unresolved by the higher courts, but this decision ought to prompt employers to review their policies about enhanced pay to avoid falling into the trap that Network Rail did, and also to ensure that there is parity between the provisions of any policies relating to shared parental leave in general.

Facing a human rights complaint through the Community Legal Assistance Society from mother Jessica Alford about the clawback of maternity and parental leave benefits from Employment Insurance, and a rising chorus of disapproval about this policy from First Call, West Coast LEAF, the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition and more, government again responded with the elimination of the clawback effective October 1, 2016.

To alleviate my fears and concerns and clear up some confusion, Julie Kashen, Policy Director of Make It Work, was kind enough to answer some of my questions about parental leave.

Recently, everyone has been talking about tech companies upgrading their parental leave policies to attract top talent.

It is between the end of parental leave and the beginning of schooling that supports break down and public policy is confused about what to do.

In the US and Canada, most men and women are in the labour force when their first child is born, and about 60 % of women who have a child under three years of age are employed.5 Concerns about parental stress (caused by the difficulties of balancing work and family responsibilities) and about children's well - being (in their earliest years of life) have prompted further consideration regarding how parental leave and benefit policies might be improved, and which complementary policies, programs, and services will best promote child and family well - being.