Trinidad and Tobago expands worker protections with new severance, parental leave, and anti-discrimination laws.

Trinidad and Tobago is overhauling its Retrenchment and Severance Benefits Act and Maternity Protection Act, expanding severance rights to include insolvency and business closures, introducing a guaranteed severance fund, and updating pay rates after decades. The reforms extend paid parental, paternity, and adoptive leave, protect contract workers, ban pregnancy testing, ensure job reinstatement after leave, and shift the burden of proof in discrimination cases to employers. The legislation, now under legal review, aims to modernize worker protections amid rising job losses and reflects broader changes to support working families.