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.
Aside from making arrangements to welcome an employee back from maternity leave and settling her into work, there are other...
Statutory maternity pay and statutory sick pay rates will not rise in 2016. The Government has proposed no annual increase...
Spotify, the Swedish music streaming company, has announced it will offer all staff six months’ parental leave on full pay....
Just 2% of employers say that they have experienced a significant take-up of shared parental leave, but 38% have received...
Considering suitable alternative employment for employees at risk of redundancy is an important part of a fair redundancy procedure. When...
George Osborne’s announcement that working grandparents will be eligible to shared parental leave entitlement looks like a progressive move, but...
Grandparents will be able to take shared parental leave under plans announced yesterday at the Conservative party conference.
The announcement...
Austria offers its citizens some of the most generous holiday entitlements in the world, with some staff entitled to as...
Streaming media giant Netflix has announced that it will offer new parents unlimited paid leave for a year. But employers...
Research issued last month by the Equality and Human Rights Commission showed that 54,000 new mothers are forced out of...
An employment tribunal was wrong to conclude that a Scottish Canals employee was unfairly dismissed after he posted Facebook comments...
It is discriminatory to make employees leave a childcare voucher scheme while on maternity leave, according to an employment tribunal....
Reports suggest that an employment tribunal has awarded £406,000 to an architect who was subjected to sexist bullying and marginalised...
David Cameron has indicated that he could look at plans to allow parents to transfer part of their family-friendly leave...
A new service from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), to be launched on 8 June 2015, has meant...
