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.
Confusion remains as to how employers should tackle the prospect of parents stopping and starting their shared parental leave. Can...
The much-heralded introduction of shared parental leave means that employers must formulate a new procedure to enable mothers to end...
Shared parental leave does not have to be taken in one consecutive block; employees can stop and start their leave....
Employers reviewing policies in the run-up to the introduction of shared parental leave and pay must make a key decision...
ON DEMAND | Shared parental leave and pay will be available to eligible parents of babies due...
Fathers working in the civil service who want to share parental leave will be entitled to the same benefits and...
The conciliation service Acas has today published a new guide to shared parental leave (SPL).
It aims to help employers...
A new right for fathers and partners to take time off to attend antenatal appointments came in on 1 October...
There has been a raft of employment law changes for HR to get to grips with already this year, including...
October sees the introduction of brand new antenatal rights for fathers to take time off work to accompany a pregnant woman to see a midwife or...
With the sand finally gone from between your toes and the flip flops banished to the back of the wardrobe,...
An employment tribunal has awarded a policewoman more than £37,000 after finding that the Metropolitan Police committed race and sex...
Ford has successfully defended its policy of paying...
If an employer pays enhanced maternity pay, must it also enhance pay to employees on shared parental leave? This seems...
The Liberal Democrats would give fathers four weeks’ extra paternity leave under manifesto plans announced at the weekend.
Fathers are...
