The House of Representatives voted into legislation an amendment allowing workers to apply for paid leave from their first month of employment. Previously, to legally qualify for paid leave, employees had to have worked for the same employer for at least thirteen weeks, a provision that was in conflict with an EU Directive dating back to 1993. The amendments also remove a provision stipulating that if employees did not complete 13 weeks of work at the same company, then the leave they had accrued would be lost.
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