Pregnant employees are entitled to take 52 weeks’ maternity leave. Pregnant employees’ partners are entitled to take two weeks’ ordinary paternity leave provided that they have the required continuous service.
New parents are also 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.
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Women in OECD countries receive around a quarter less income than men from the pension system.
MPs have voted to give ministers paid maternity leave, but the bill has been criticised for excluding backbench MPs and for giving no mention to paternity leave.
Employers could do more to make working parents aware of their rights to leave and financial support during the pandemic, a study has claimed.
Labour MP Stella Creasy said she would be prepared to sue the government over plans to grant maternity protections to cabinet ministers but not backbench MPs.
Policies launched in response to the pandemic have overlooked well-understood labour market and caring inequalities faced by women.
A new law will be passed that will for the first time extend maternity leave rights to senior government ministers.
Law firm Slater and Gordon says some redundancy selection processes are unfair and employers are unlawfully making decisions based on protected characteristics.
Major survey finds 78% of working mothers have not been able to gain furlough funding.
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