Paternity
Pregnant employees’ partners are entitled to take two weeks’ ordinary paternity leave provided that they have the required continuous service.
Shared parental leave enables mothers to commit to ending their maternity leave and pay at a future date, and to share the untaken balance of leave and pay as shared parental leave and pay with their partner.
Maternity, paternity and shared (grand)parental leave webinar
Tuesday 18 October 2016, 2:00pm BST
What do employers need to consider when an employee or an employee’s partner has...
Statutory maternity pay and sick pay frozen for 2016/17
Statutory maternity pay and statutory sick pay rates will not rise in 2016. The Government has proposed no annual increase...
Shared grandparental leave risks dads missing out – Jo Swinson
George Osborne’s announcement that working grandparents will be eligible to shared parental leave entitlement looks like a progressive move, but...
Fathers in Sweden to get three months’ paid paternity leave
Sweden is planning to offer new fathers a third month of paid paternity leave, its Government has announced.
The country...
Ordinary parental leave from April 2015: what employers need to know
With all the focus on shared parental leave, employers may have missed changes to entitlement to “ordinary” parental leave that...
HR professionals criticise complexity of shared parental leave
The HR profession supports shared parental leave in principle, but it is concerned that the new right is complex to...
Shared parental leave: how to help fathers feel comfortable taking time off
Soon we will see the first parents eligible for shared parental leave take advantage of the new right. Policy aside,...
Jo Swinson: shared parental leave “no more complex” than maternity leave
Shared parental leave, perhaps the most significant piece of employment law to be passed by the coalition Government, is upon...
Two-thirds of fathers open to taking shared parental leave
Nearly two-thirds of fathers would consider discussing shared parental leave with their employer if they had children in the future,...
April 2015 employment law changes: an eight-point checklist
However changeable employment law may be, one thing you can rely on is that many of those employment law changes...
Labour would double paternity leave and pay
A future Labour government would double statutory paternity leave and pay, under election plans announced today.
New fathers would have...
Two in five fathers will not qualify for shared parental leave
Rules surrounding the eligibility for shared parental leave have been criticised after the TUC found that two in five men...
Shared parental leave timeline: key dates for HR
Shared parental leave might feel like something for April 2015, but it is already having an impact on employers. We...
Statutory shared parental pay rate announced
The Government has published details of the rate at which statutory shared parental pay will be paid from April 2015,...
Civil service fathers to receive same parental leave and pay as mothers
Fathers working in the civil service who want to share parental leave will be entitled to the same benefits and...
