Companies Grant Thornton expands family leave policiesLeave for fertility treatment and those experiencing pregnancy loss to be offered to staff
‘Outsourcing the management of social protections to the private sector’: Why SMEs are weighing up the cost of new employee benefitsAs large firms introduce better employee benefits and the state continues to legislate for increased rights for workers, can SMEs cope with the cost of meeting these new standards?
McEntee’s husband wants more men to take six months of parental leavePaul Hickey, the spouse of the Minister for Justice, has been granted the time off to raise their baby son by his employer, pharma firm Novartis Ireland
How to work: Parents to get greater leave entitlements thanks to EU directive State will offer increased flexibility for working parents and will take further steps to improve work-life balance as it is required to implement new laws
Government expects 61% will not avail of paid parental leave The projected low take-up of the €245 payment threatens its aim of sharing parental leave between both parents
