Great Britain: government will transpose parental leave European directive in 2013 instead of 2012

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, which must be transposed by March 8, 2012, will only be implemented in March 2013 in the UK. The reason given is that it will be included in a new, more flexible policy on parental leave, currently being drafted. (Ref. 120053)

18 weeks. The parental leave directive, which the European Council adopted in March 2010 (see our dispatch No. 100243) grants parents with children under the age of five the right to take up to 18 weeks of unpaid parental leave – five more weeks than current UK reg

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