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.
Just 5% of new fathers and 8% of new mothers have opted to take shared parental leave since it was...
To attract overseas business investment, Singapore has concluded an international network of trade agreements. Changes to Singapore employment law in...
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The Government has published the statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay and sick pay...
With flexible working requests set to increase, including from men, how should employers respond? Jane Wheeler, partner at Hine Legal,...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests that women earn 30% less than men by the time their children are 10...
The first employment tribunal case to deal with enhanced shared parental pay and the potential for sex discrimination – Snell...
Mothers of premature babies are campaigning for statutory maternity leave to be extended where mothers give birth early. Stephen Simpson...
Employers who pay mothers different rates of shared parental pay to fathers run the risk of sex discrimination claims, following...
Two easyJet flight attendants have won the right to express milk for their children while working, in a landmark indirect...
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 ...
The Women and Equalities Committee has called for “urgent action” to stop discrimination against new and expectant mothers at work....
