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 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit against financial news service Bloomberg after it said the company discriminated...
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The government has outlined more detailed paternity proposals that would enable parents to swap some paid leave between the mother...
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Last week the government issued a consultation paper giving further details of its radical proposals to enable mothers to ‘transfer’ substantial...
Employers have welcomed government plans to come up with a simple system of transferring maternity leave to fathers. Last week,...
A consultation on new paternity leave proposals that would enable parents to share paid time off have been published by...
Employers are still in the dark about maternity changes. XpertHR provides some clarification.
Almost a quarter of nursery places are now unfilled as a result of more flexible parenting rights which enable mothers...
Reading comments from the likes of Caroline Joy (‘Urgent need for a change in attitude over working mums’, Letters, Personnel...
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