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Starting in early March, the employees of the Czech branch of GSK are able to use selected preventive health care services for free under the newly launched Partnership for Prevention (P4P) program.…
An amendment to the existing Czech Act No. 187/2006 Coll., On sickness insurance, promulgated under No. 148/2017 Coll, will come into force from 1st February 2018. In Part Three, Title V, it…
Twenty weeks of fully paid maternity leave for mothers after the birth of a child or six weeks of fully paid parental leave for fathers are new employee benefits at Microsoft. The new Family Leave…
The United States represent the only developed economy in the world with no national health insurance system and no paid parental leave guaranteed to employees. Parents are entitled to take parental…
At the end of 2015, the Institute for Democracy and Economic Analysis (IDEA) at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences published two studies focused on the situation of women with…
Two hundred and three professors from 88 US universities, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, signed an open letter in support of the introduction…
At a press conference on 10th September 2015, Czech Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Michaela Marksova, unveiled four planned measures to support families. Day care leave, parental benefit…
Parents in the Czech Republic can take one of the longest maternity leaves in the world. On the one hand, it sounds great. On the other hand, however, the country is losing money this way. It enforces…
The technology sector is looking for various ways to attract and retain more women. Not long ago, for example, there was a heated debate about the intention of Apple and Facebook to help female…
Richard Branson, British billionaire and owner of the Virgin brand - which includes hundreds of companies, including the recording company Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic Airways - offered his…
The number of men on parental leave (who are entitled to take maternity benefits*) has increased in the Czech Republic. Data from the Czech Social Security Administration (CSSA) indicates this…
The British telecommunication group Vodafone is introducing a global maternity policy to support new parents among its staff. By the end of the year, the policy will be implemented in all the 30…
The law on sharing maternity leave, the so-called Shared Parental Leave Regulations 2014, came into force in the United Kingdom on 1st December 2014. Both couples with children due or with children…
Mothers are significantly more productive at work than women and men without children. Mothers of two or more children achieved the greatest level of productivity during their careers. That is the…
A lot has been written about the benefits of flexible working, both for employers and employees. However, many companies still seem to know nothing about flexible working or do not want to know. Small…
