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.
Parental leave could rise to four months if an EU framework agreement is applied in the UK.The agreement to increase...
Employers must be very wary when making expectant and new mothers redundant.Recent comments by Marks & Spencer boss, Sir Stuart...
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The government has delayed new paternity leave proposals due to the recession, but is this a move in the right direction?
Plans to give fathers six months paternity leave have been shelved by the government to help employers during the recession.The...
In May the European Parliament voted against extending the minimum length of parental leave across the EU to 20 weeks...
Network Rail’s HR director has come under renewed pressure to resign over allegations that he repeatedly discriminated against female colleagues.The...
European MPs will vote later this month on whether both partners in a lesbian couple should be entitled to maternity...
Equality campaigners and leading business groups have delivered a lukewarm response to new parental leave proposals aimed at generating greater...
I work as an HR manager at a large media company. In recent months, there’s been a surge in the...
New proposals for increasing parental leave pay in stages over the next 10 years will cause “an administrative headache” for...
XpertHR outlines the issues to be taken into account when dealing with the annual leave entitlement of an employee taking maternity leave.
Statutory maternity pay should be scaled back and fathers should get eight weeks of paid leave, the equalities watchdog has...
It's time for the latest round of springtime legislation updates. We run through the key legal changes you need to be aware of - from the new Acas code, to increases in sick pay, maternity pay and statutory holiday.
