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.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has today called on both employees and employers from across the UK...
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HR professionals should not panic about draft European legislation to extend maternity leave to 20 weeks on full pay, a...
Draft legislation to extend maternity leave to 20 weeks on full pay has been passed by a European Parliament committee.The...
Sahota v Home Office and Pipkin
Sahota v The Home Office and PipkinFACTSImmigration officer Parminder Sahota was experiencing difficulties becoming pregnant and had begun a course...
Two members of staff in my small company are expecting a baby together, and have suggested that they would like...
The recent “Back with a Bump” poll commissioned by the National Childbirth Trust has found that over a third of...
Employers need not panic as EU proposals to increase unpaid parental leave from three to four months were accepted in...
Many employers are still not giving mothers returning from maternity leave the support they need, according to research by the...
New fathers should be given better paid paternity leave and extra parental leave, according to a report from the Equality...
Mothers no longer want to commit to full-time employment, a study has found. The What women want and how they...
Two mothers from the same company welcoming two new babies into the world at the same time is usually seen...
Government plans to scrap tax exemptions on childcare vouchers will set the equality agenda back and discourage women on maternity...
Prime minister Gordon Brown addressed the TUC annual congress today, on a range of employment issues. Here is a round...
