Pregnancy Accommodation Legislation: A Patchwork Employers Must Carefully Monitor

Is Pennsylvania going to join the ranks of states and municipalities requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees? Senate Bill 1209, which was recently introduced and referred to committee, is intended to do precisely that; a similar piece of legislation has been introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Under the proposed Senate bill, employers with “four or more” employees in Pennsylvania would be required to provide “[a]n accommodation for as long […]

By | May 12th, 2014 ||

Employee Share Schemes – Are Your Schemes Up To Date?

As part of the Government’s drive to make 2010-20 the “decade of employee share ownership”, there have recently been a number of significant changes to HMRC approved share plans and Enterprise Management Incentive Schemes (EMI).

Provisions which became law under the Finance Act 2013, along with draft legislation published for the Finance Act 2014, together represent the most significant set of developments in the last 10 years for companies operating employee share schemes and employees […]

By | May 9th, 2014 ||

France: New Union Agreement On Unemployment Benefits

On March 22, 2014, employer and employee unions agreed to a new agreement on unemployment benefits (Accord National Interprofessionnel) which must be approved by the French government before becoming effective. This agreement impacts the extent to which an employee’s unemployment benefits are accumulated when starting new employment and also extends the period of time before which an employee is able to receive unemployment benefits if he/she received a termination payment which exceeded the amount […]

By | May 8th, 2014 ||