On 1 September 2015 significant new employment rights will come into force in Jersey aimed at supporting families and gender equality.
For the first time women will have a right to maternity leave of between 8 and 18 weeks including two weeks paid leave. Fathers, adopters and civil partners will be entitled to take up to two weeks unpaid parental leave. As an added layer of protection unfair dismissal rights are extended so that dismissal […]
On August 20, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a plaintiff could not prevail on a Title VII religious discrimination claim where there was no evidence the employer knew that the reason that the plaintiff refused to complete a job duty, which led to the employee’s termination, was that she had a conflicting religious belief.
Plaintiff Kelsey Nobach (“Nobach”) worked for Defendant Woodland Village Nursing Center (“Woodland”) as a […]
In August, the Ontario government made additional announcements regarding the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP), which is expected to be introduced in 2017. Ontario continues to move forward with its commitment to introduce the ORPP in order to provide a predictable source of retirement income for Ontarians. The announcement indicates that “subject to legislative approval, by 2020, every employee in Ontario will be part of either the ORPP or a comparable workplace pension plan.” This […]