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.
With all the focus on shared parental leave, employers may have missed changes to entitlement to “ordinary” parental leave that...
The HR profession supports shared parental leave in principle, but it is concerned that the new right is complex to...
Soon we will see the first parents eligible for shared parental leave take advantage of the new right. Policy aside,...
Shared parental leave, perhaps the most significant piece of employment law to be passed by the coalition Government, is upon...
However changeable employment law may be, one thing you can rely on is that many of those employment law changes...
Rules surrounding the eligibility for shared parental leave have been criticised after the TUC found that two in five men...
Parts of the Fit for Work service, the government-funded occupational health advice service, are now in operation, with the rest...
Shared parental leave might feel like something for April 2015, but it is already having an impact on employers. We...
How far do employers have to go when making reasonable adjustments...
The Government has published details of the rate at which statutory shared parental pay will be paid from April 2015,...
Fathers working in the civil service who want to share parental leave will be entitled to the same benefits and...
A new right for fathers and partners to take time off to attend antenatal appointments came in on 1 October...
An employment tribunal has awarded a policewoman more than £37,000 after finding that the Metropolitan Police committed race and sex...
Ford has successfully defended its policy of paying...
If an employer pays enhanced maternity pay, must it also enhance pay to employees on shared parental leave? This seems...
