Businesses are fiercely opposed to government plans to extend parental leave and boost the minimum wage.
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We should extend family leave to 10 million more Americans working in smaller companies.
Labour also plan a bill to extend maternity leave and pilot shared equity schemes for home ownership if they win an historic third term in office.
Speaking on behalf of the Council, Poland's Deputy Minister of Labour, Radoslaw Mleczko, confirmed that the Council would continue to oppose any move to extend maternity leave to 20 weeks.
MEPs voted to extend maternity leave from a minimum of 14 weeks to 20 weeks but this was rejected by the Council, which represents national governments, in December 2010 on cost grounds.
He made a string of lavish promises to cut child-care costs, guarantee kindergarten places, extend maternity and paternity leave and even hand out free fruit to schoolchildren.
And something that I'm especially proud of that we just talked about at the table, the President worked with the Congress to extend the Family and Medical Leave Act to all our military families and to caregivers of our wounded warriors, because just like other Americans, our military spouses need to care for their loved ones without fear of losing their jobs.
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The 26-year-old Pole recently rejected the chance to extend his stay at Tannadice and will leave as a free agent at the end of the season.
Some companies extend domestic partner benefits to one area, like bereavement leave, as a test, says Ilse de Veer, a benefits consultant with Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
"It suggests a level of criminality which to my mind could easily extend to exploiting criminal connections to obtain false travel documents and leave the country undetected, " he added.
Beginning in October 2015, the mandate will extend to businesses with 15 or more workers, providing even more workers with the sick-leave benefit.
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