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New UK Employment Law Changes Taking Effect

This spring sees the introduction of a number of important changes to employment laws in the United Kingdom. These include:

  • Expansion of the existing right to request flexible working
  • New rules for the calculation of holiday and holiday pay entitlement for irregular hour workers and part-year workers
  • A new unpaid leave right for carers
  • Greater flexibility in respect of paternity leave
  • Enhanced redundancy protection for pregnant employees and employees taking certain family leave
  • Increases in minimum wage limits
  • Increases in the value of certain potential tribunal awards and other statutory payment entitlements
  • Increases in the value of potential injury to feeling awards in discrimination cases

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Family Ties: Connecticut Passes Paid Family and Medical Leave

Connecticut enacted a paid family and medical leave law, which provides paid leave to eligible employees and expand allowable reasons for such leave. This Connecticut statute closely tracks Massachusetts’s parallel statute and appears to be among the most generous paid family leave laws in the country. All private sector employers (and their employees who work in Connecticut) are covered.

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