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.
Shared parental leave will give working parents more choice in how they care for their child in the first year...
A new system of statutory parental rights will be introduced next year, which will inevitably place additional administrative burdens on...
Recruitment and dismissal can be problematic for businesses, particularly when employers are unaware of the legal consequences of their actions....
XpertHR is carrying out a survey of occupational maternity and paternity pay rates offered by UK employers and we would...
Eleanor Gelder looks at surrogate mothers and their right to maternity leave, dismissals following post-maternity leave absence and what constitutes personal data...
Every spring, along with warmer weather and lighter evenings, comes the latest instalment of legislative change for employers and 2014...
Legislation that will bring into force various changes to maternity, paternity and adoption rights has completed its route through Parliament....
Coalition intentions to “cut red tape” for employers may be at risk, after draft Regulations for shared parental leave were...
After a long wait, the shared parental leave proposals are about to become law. Yet take-up by new fathers is...
We round up 10 of the significant legal decisions expected in 2014.
Employers should start preparing for employment law changes coming into force in 2014, as the year kicks off with amendments to TUPE Regulations in January...
Vicky Schollar of Blake Lapthorn’s Employment team considers the rights of pregnant women and those on maternity leave and how...
As the Government confirms its plans to introduce shared parental leave, Elizabeth Clery, research director in the Society and Social...
Shared parental leave will be introduced in April 2015 after the Government confirmed its intentions for mothers to be able to effectively share their maternity leave.
Both a surrogate mother and the intended mother should be given maternity pay and leave according to the Advocate General’s...
