Welcome to the latest issue of the Employer Resources Newsletter, where you will find in-depth and expertly researched and written articles (courtesy of Adare Human Resource Management) covering key areas of employment law and best practice.
If there are any specific topics you would like covered in this publication, please forward your suggestions to Adare Human Resources Management: info@adarehrm.ie.
If there are any specific topics you would like covered in this publication, please forward your suggestions to Adare Human Resources Management: info@adarehrm.ie.
Newsletter Content:
- Employment Case Law – each month we review a number of interesting employment law cases and consider their implications for organisations. This month we look at the Probation Period - What Managers Need to Know. Read more >>>
- Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Decisions – each month we look at and review the decisions from the WRC. This provides a valuable insight into the types of discrimination cases before the WRC and the decisions that are issued. Read more >>>
- What to Keep an Eye Out For – what is new, changing, potentially changing or what you may have missed. Read more >>>
Did you Know?
Parental Leave
A proposal to extend parental leave from 18 to 26 weeks has been referred to the Oireachtas Committee on Justice and Equality following a debate in the Dáil.
The Parental leave Acts, 1998-2013 set out to provide unpaid leave to natural and adoptive parents of children of a certain age and also to persons acting in loco parentis to same. Although there is no statutory definition of loco parentis, the expression is generally interpreted as meaning a person acting in place of a parent, e.g. a foster parent.
Eligibility for parental leave depends on 3 factors. These are:
Leave may be availed of in respect of a relevant child:
Parental Leave
A proposal to extend parental leave from 18 to 26 weeks has been referred to the Oireachtas Committee on Justice and Equality following a debate in the Dáil.
The Parental leave Acts, 1998-2013 set out to provide unpaid leave to natural and adoptive parents of children of a certain age and also to persons acting in loco parentis to same. Although there is no statutory definition of loco parentis, the expression is generally interpreted as meaning a person acting in place of a parent, e.g. a foster parent.
Eligibility for parental leave depends on 3 factors. These are:
- The Employee’s status as a parent,
- The age of the relevant child in respect of whom leave is being taken, and,
- The Employee meeting minimum service requirements.
Leave may be availed of in respect of a relevant child:
- Aged under 8 years of age, or
- Within two years of an adoption order where the child is adopted between the ages of 6 and 8 years, or
- Aged under 16 years in the case of a child with a disability/ long term illness, or earlier where the child ceases to have a disability/ long term illness.
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