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.
Sweden is planning to offer new fathers a third month of paid paternity leave, its Government has announced.
The country...
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The new right to shared parental leave is intended to promote a major culture shift in the sharing of childcare...
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An employment tribunal has held that a female police officer who was required to attend an intensive firearms training course...
Many employers will now have their procedures in place to deal with shared parental leave in a birth situation, and...
With all the focus on shared parental leave, employers may have missed changes to entitlement to “ordinary” parental leave that...
The HR profession supports shared parental leave in principle, but it is concerned that the new right is complex to...
Many employers will now have their shared parental leave policy to cover birth situations in place. But how does shared...
While shared parental leave and pay has dominated coverage of the April 2015 employment law changes, the introduction of the...
One-fifth of employers have decided to enhance their shared parental pay, while the same number remain undecided. This is according...
Soon we will see the first parents eligible for shared parental leave take advantage of the new right. Policy aside,...
Shared parental leave, perhaps the most significant piece of employment law to be passed by the coalition Government, is upon...
Many small businesses are unprepared for shared parental leave and do not expect their staff to want to take it,...
Nearly two-thirds of fathers would consider discussing shared parental leave with their employer if they had children in the future,...
