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Maternity Leave – The Facts

Pregnancy and the workplace – it’s not always the easiest relationship to manage as the rights of expecting and new mothers can conflict with employers’ business concerns.

However, employment law is pretty clear on this point. Pregnant employees or employees on maternity leave are protected against discrimination on the basis of their pregnancy or new motherhood.

With this in mind, the Employment Law Blog thought a breakdown of the facts of maternity leave might be useful for small or new businesses that may be trepidatious at dealing with this situation.

Maternity leave is a statutory right for employees

Employees are entitled to Statutory Maternity Leave (SML) if they fulfil two conditions:  they must be an employee, and they must have given their employer the correct notice of their intention to take SML.

If an employee fulfils these conditions, her length of service does not matter. In add

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Business Owners: Celebrate Your Personal Independence Day

The dictionary defines independence as “freedom from the control and influence of others.” The pursuit of independence not only led to the American Revolution in the 1770s, but to the entrepreneurial one in the 1990s. I’ve long thought America’s founders and entrepreneurs have a lot in common. I don’t mean the actual act of owning a business — although Benjamin Franklin is considered by many to be America’s first entrepreneur — but rather a shared mindset.

Whether you aspire to lead a huge corporation or simply to be a solopreneur or freelancer, your goals are the same as that of America’s founders: to achieve freedom, liberty, and independence; to choose what you want to do and when you want to do it; to be responsible for your actions and reap the subsequent rewards.

Most people inherently understand why we’d want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Martha Stewart.

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TEXAS BOASTS 3 OF THE NATION’S CITIES WITH THE BEST JOB GROWTH

Job growth is slowly on the rise according to analysts. Recently the annual list of Best Cities for Jobs was release with some surprising results. Last year the reports showed a gloomy outlook when only 13 of 397 metropolitan areas experienced any growth. For this year’s list, which measured job growth in the period between January 2010 and January 2011, most of the best-performing areas experienced increases in employment increases.
Almost 400 metropolitan statistical areas are ranked based on employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported from November 1999 to January 2011. Rankings are based on recent growth trends, mid-term growth and long-term growth and momentum. The locations are also broke down by size, small, medium and large, because regional economies differ markedly due to their scale.
Reflecting the importance of the war effort in stimulating local economies, command of this year’s best place for jobs was handed to the Army from the Marines. Read all post…

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More high-street retailers to fail, warn insolvency experts

More leading high street retailers are set to fail, according to new research by insolvency professionals trade body R3.

In the last week administrators have been called in  at  fashion retailer Jane Norman and homewares chain Habitat  while Old Trafford-based HomeForm, whose subsidiaries include Dolphin Bathrooms and Moben Kitchens, and Liverpool-based TJ Hughes are set to suffer the same fate.

R3 said more firms will have struggled to raise the cash they needed to pay to landlords on ‘quarter day’ – June 24 – the day when retail rents traditionally fall due.

Research by  R3 shows that almost nine out of  10  people in the  north  west have changed their spending habits over the last  12  months.

More than half are buying fewer non-essentials such as clothes and DVDs. One in thre

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The Oil Market Implications Of Hugo Chavez Being Sick

According to recent reports in the Venezuelan press, President Hugo Chávez is currently undergoing medical treatment in Cuba. Beyond that, little is certain.

The right-wing Latino press of southern Florida reports that Chávez is terminally ill, citing unnamed American intelligence specialists. Their track record of predicting the demise of various progressive Latin American political figures up to now has been less than impressive, most notably in the case of Cuba’s Fidel Castro. Adding credence to reports about the seriousness of Chávez’s condition however, Spain’s EFE news service reported that his daughter Rosines and his mother, Marisabel Rodriguez were “urgently” flown to Cuba in an air force plane last week.

Chávez underwent an operation on 10 June in Cuba for what his government has said was a pelvic abscess. Lending

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