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.
The government unveils its Next Steps to Make Work Pay alongside the publication of its Employment Rights Bill today.
Labour’s reforms to workers’ rights - due this week - could take years to bed in and will not all be introduced at once, reports suggest.
UK lags behind Spain, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan and Norway when it comes to work-life balance.
Sickness absence during a disciplinary process is the top FAQ in September 2024's top HR questions on Brightmine.
Fewer than one in two (45%) “top tier” UK employers are offering their staff equal amounts of fully paid parental leave.
A new record high proportion of employers – 89% – now promote their support for working parents with paternity leave...
Deloitte UK announces it is equalising parental leave, the first of the Big Four accounting firms to do so.
Former Mitie employee criticised for being “very emotional and tearful” during pregnancy wins compensation boost totalling £350,000.
More than 2.5 million women working in the private sector are missing out on enhanced maternity pay, according to data from Brightmine.
There were almost 25,000 claims for shared parental leave last year, a record number since the right was introduced in...
The Labour government has said that it will remove the qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims, and there is a new code of practice for dismissing and re-engaging employees.
Irish government announces it will extend parents' leave benefit allowance from seven weeks to nine weeks as of next month.
The new government confirmed that it would bring forward an Employment Rights Bill in the King’s Speech today (17 July)...
Telecoms giant BT Group is to roll out a new family leave policy for its UK employees from 1 January 2025.
A mother has won more than £90,000 for sex discrimination after a job offer was withdrawn when boss asked how old her children were.
