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PARENTS in Britain will be granted the right to bereavement leave after suffering a miscarriage, the Guardian reported today.
The newspaper reported that an amendment to the upcoming Employment Rights Bill, expected to pass into law this summer, will extend two weeks of bereavement leave to parents who have suffered a miscarriage before 24 weeks’ gestation.
In January, a women and equalities select committee report concluded that the case for it was “overwhelming.”
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC