Pregnancy (Maternity) Leave: Pregnant workers will be able to begin unpaid job
protected pregnancy leave 13 weeks before their expected due date (currently 11 weeks).
Not exact matches
If NuvaRing has been
left inside your vagina for more than 4 weeks (28 days), you may not be
protected from
pregnancy and you should see your health care provider to be sure you are not pregnant.
From maternity and paternity
leave for parents, work place rights during
pregnancy, to rules
protecting against harassment and unequal treatment, women in Britain benefit from the EU.
The Reach Institute for School Leadership affords equal opportunity to all students, and other participants without regard to race, color, religion, citizenship, political activity or affiliation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (as defined under California law), veteran status, family care status, sexual orientation, sex (which includes gender and gender identity,
pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), taking or requesting statutorily
protected leave, or any other basis
protected by law.)
Pregnancy Discrimination Laws such as the CFRA can provide you with job -
protected, unpaid
leave for up to 12 weeks to bond with a foster child, a child of a spouse or domestic partner, or a newborn.
Employees who take
pregnancy or parental
leave are also
protected from what is phrased a «sham reinstatement» where the reinstatement lasts for a short period following the
leave and then the employee is terminated.
In addition to the
leaves already
protected under the Act, including Personal Emergency,
Pregnancy, Parental, Family Medical
Leave, Organ Donor
Leave and others,
This is considerably longer than the current
leave available to birth mothers, which provides a maximum
protected leave period of 52 weeks to birth mothers (inclusive of
pregnancy leave); and
It is possibly the biggest controversy in workplace law: Do employers get away with terminating employees on
pregnancy or parental
leave illegally because of a «loophole» in legislation, or do the additional legal provisions extended to new parents go beyond what is necessary to ensure they are
protected?
Domestic workers are also entitled to job -
protected leave time, such as
pregnancy and parental
leave, personal emergency
leave, critical illness
leave, and all other
leaves covered under the Employment Standards Act.
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.
(i) harassment will no longer have to be «on the ground of» sex, but merely «related to» it; (ii) harassment will apply to a witness of the opposite sex to the recipient of the behaviour; (iii) an employer will be liable for harassment for failing to take reasonable steps to
protect an employee from repeated harassment by third parties; (iv)
pregnancy or maternity
leave discrimination will no longer require a comparator; (vi) it will be contrary to the Act to deprive a woman of non-contractual bonuses in respect of the two - week period of compulsory maternity
leave; and (vii) the same claims of discrimination in relation to terms and conditions of employment will be available in relation to additional maternity
leave as in relation to ordinary maternity
leave.
Each day, we organize and mobilize to
protect that freedom by fighting for access to abortion care, birth control, paid parental
leave and protections from
pregnancy discrimination.