On Jan. 20, the U.K. government confirmed that the right to statutory neonatal care leave and pay will take effect, as anticipated, on April 6. Its introduction aims to address the issue of parents of children who go into neonatal care having to use up a proportion of their existing family leave rights (such as maternity and paternity leave) to care for their baby in a hospital.
For these purposes, neonatal care means:
Neonatal care is defined as starting within 28 days of the child’s birth and continuing for a period of at least seven consecutive days.
The right to neonatal care leave will apply from day one of employment, and all employees who are parents of a baby born on or after April 6 who is receiving neonatal care, and who have or expect to have responsibility for the baby’s upbringing, will be eligible. Parents include adoptive parents and intended parents under a surrogacy arrangement. The parent’s partner will also be eligible, provided that they live with the parent and that they also have or expect to have responsibility for the baby’s upbringing.
Parents or partners who have not accrued...
LOS ANGELES — A former Amtrak employee has been sentenced to 25 months in prison for conspiring to steal nearly $1 million in pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits and fraudently obtain...