Pregnant employees are entitled to take 52 weeks’ maternity leave. Parents with babies due on or after 5 April 2015 are entitled to take shared parental leave. 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.
If a witness in a disciplinary procedure wishes to remain anonymous, how can the employer balance their privacy against the...
HR practitioners, even some line managers, know full well that an employee at risk of redundancy when they are on...
A number of employers including Asos, IBM, Lidl and Facebook are completely ‘invisible’ when it comes to publicising their support...
When faced with the need to make redundancies, how should an employer decide which employees to select?
Redundancy exercises bring...
The government is exploring the possibility of a new law requiring employers with more than 250 employees to publish details...
Ten major employers have agreed to publish their parental leave and pay policies online.
Parental leave and pay
Maternity and...
While progress has been made in some areas of the Brexit negotiations, including agreement on the rights of EU citizens...
With statistics suggesting autumn is the most popular season to give birth, Beverley Sunderland clarifies some lesser known maternity rights...
UCL research suggests that shared parental leave is failing, with financial implications and strict eligibility creating barriers...
Uber is to introduce numerous protections for its drivers through a new insurance scheme, including sick pay and maternity and...
The proportion of working-age mothers in paid work increased by almost 50% over four decades, according to the Institute of...
The introduction of gender pay gap reporting has shifted the onus of responsibility for solving the gender pay gap to...
One of the key messages employers are hearing on the new data protection rules under the General Data Protection Regulation...
Recent research showing how women and men continue to struggle to achieve the right balance between their work and family...
The Government has published the statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay and sick pay...
