Not exact matches
Netflix, for example, now gives new parents unlimited
maternity or paternity
leave during the first year after the
child's birth or adoption.
This is not born out in the research: in Sweden,
child injury (age 0 - 2 years) was lower
during paternity as compared with
maternity leave (Laflamme et al, 2012).
Families are engaged through home visits at least once a year; if a student has a
child mid-year, that student and family will receive at least two home visits
during the
maternity leave.
She strongly recommended the following
during the third Senate hearing: provide mothers with longer paid
maternity leave; establish crèches at workplaces; revive the national movement to promote breastfeeding with budget appropriations, conduct trainings of health workers to be able to support mothers to breastfeed beyond two years, implement strictly the national code, support researches on breastfeeding; and establish a
child - to -
child program to educate them at a young age on the advantages of breastfeeding.
Most employers will only pay company - funded
maternity leave after you have been with the company for a minimum period — this is usually around four months, exclusive of your gestation period (the nine months
during which you are pregnant), meaning you have to have been with the company for at least a year by the time your
child is born.
On Tuesday, video - streaming company Netflix announced it would be offering its employees a year of
maternity and paternity
leave during the first year after their
child's birth or adoption.
Peninsula Business Services v Donaldson [2016] ICR 565 Critical EAT case holding that
child - care voucher schemes which «divert» existing salary are part of an employee's remuneration and therefore are not a benefit to which there is an entitlement
during maternity leave.
In its view, the purpose of this part of
maternity leave is to protect the health and wellbeing of the mother
during pregnancy and following childbirth, and therefore this
leave is not comparable to shared parental
leave, the purpose of which is to care for the
child.
By October 2015, a new system of
maternity allowance should be in place - this «flexible parental
leave» will give both mothers and fathers the same state support
during the first year of their
child's life.