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.
Helen Larkin was made redundant at eight months' pregnant.
Brexit seemed to put the brakes on progress for family-friendly rights last year, but 2020 and beyond could see some...
The government has published the proposed statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay and sick...
Two-thirds of people who voted Conservative in the 2019 general election want the new government to protect or enhance workers’...
Pending a review announced by chancellor Sajid Javid, reforms to the IR35 rules are due to be extended to the...
Only 15 of the organisations in the FTSE 250 are telling job candidates how much paid leave they could expect...
Headline-grabbing proposals can only take us so far. Cultural shifts and changes in shared leave, maternity and paternity benefits are needed before we can truly get to grips with the gender pay gap.
The Labour Party has pledged to increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months as part of a raft...
Standard Life Aberdeen will offer nine months’ fully paid leave from January.
New parents in Jersey will be offered up to 52 weeks’ leave in new legislation that has been described as...
A woman has been awarded almost £28,000 after a tribunal found she had been unfairly dismissed at 20 weeks pregnant....
How should you calculate holiday pay for a term-time worker without regular hours?
A recent Court of Appeal decision, The...
One in eight (12%) employers would be reluctant to hire a woman who could become pregnant and one in seven...
There are limits to the circumstances in which employers can take a candidate’s past criminal convictions into account when deciding...
Amid all the political turmoil in July, employers will be forgiven for missing a flurry of proposed new employment laws...
