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.
A charity has called for greater legal protections for new mothers, claiming the Government has failed to act on the...
One quarter (24%) of women on maternity leave are not offered the same training opportunities as their colleagues, according to...
Shared parental leave has been in the press again of late, with a new father winning a sex discrimination claim...
Whether or not to enhance pay during maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave is a perennial dilemma for employers....
Darren Newman asks if an employment tribunal was correct to hold that it was...
A father whose wife was advised to return to work to combat post-natal depression has won a sex discrimination claim...
The Labour Party’s official manifesto has been released today and includes some of the most radical changes to employment legislation...
Are you up to date with all this month's employment law changes? We round the nine most important legislative...
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More than half of fathers would use shared parental leave, according to a poll by charity Working...
Statistics continue to show a dearth of women in senior positions at top companies. Government needs to work with business...
To attract overseas business investment, Singapore has concluded an international network of trade agreements. Changes to Singapore employment law in...
The Government has published the statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay and sick pay...
Mothers of premature babies are campaigning for statutory maternity leave to be extended where mothers give birth early. Stephen Simpson...
ON DEMAND |What do employers need to consider when an employee or an employee's partner has a baby? Parental rights in recent years have been broadened to include the mother’s ...
