{"id":6979,"date":"2019-08-22T11:08:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/?p=6979"},"modified":"2019-08-22T11:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:08:12","slug":"parental-leave-amendment-act-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/parental-leave-amendment-act-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental Leave (Amendment) ACT 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>Changes to the Parental Leave Act in\u00a02019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>What does it mean for Employers?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul data-pm-slice=\"3 3 []\">\n<li>From 1st September 2019, parental leave for parents of eligible children will increase from 18 weeks to 22 weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>From 1st September 2020, this will increase from 22 weeks to 26 weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Parents who have already exhausted\u00a0their\u00a018 weeks parental leave, will be entitled to the extra 8 weeks of parental leave, if their child is still eligible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An increase in the age of children that parents can take parental leave for, will increase from 8 to 12 years of age<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>November 2019 (expected but not yet legislation)\u00a0A new paid parental leave scheme will allow parents to take 2 weeks paid leave each, during their child\u2019s first year. Payment will be\u00a0made by the\u00a0Department of Social Protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>Contact\u00a0Boyd HR for further details and\u00a0to discuss how this may impact on your business.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>074 9123150 or INFO@BOYDHR.IE<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to the Parental Leave Act in\u00a02019 What does it mean for Employers? From 1st September 2019, parental leave for parents of eligible children will increase from 18 weeks to 22 weeks From 1st September 2020, this will increase from 22 weeks to 26 weeks Parents who have already exhausted\u00a0their\u00a018 weeks parental leave, will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34,73,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6986,"href":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions\/6986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydhr.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}