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’s response to a High Court ruling that it failed to properly implement the European Equal Treatment Directive within...
The High Court has ruled the government failed to properly implement the European Equal Treatment Directive within the UK regulations...
The government went to court on Wednesday to defend its translation of European sex equality laws.
Judicial review proceedings were...
The practical implications of changes to the maternity regulations coming into force in April are likely to mean some changes...
A pregnant finance manager who was told to choose between her unborn baby or her job has won a sex...
Age regulations
Q We have recently moved on to a competency framework, but line managers are still responsible for writing...
We have an employee who has recently started ordinary maternity leave (OML). She will therefore be on OML over the...
Almost two-thirds of employers think that the paternity leave provisions of the Work and Families Act will cause them difficulties,...
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has published guidance for employers and employees on maternity leave regulations under the...
We have an employee returning to work during additional maternity leave. She lost her baby and as a result cannot...
Recent coverage on maternity and adoption leave in Personnel Today and on XpertHR.co.uk has suggested that these have been harmonised....
As long as they are well-managed, keeping-in-touch days could be just what employers need.
Hundreds of thousands of working mothers are set to receive an increase in paid maternity leave as the first changes...
...new fathers
We employ five staff in our accounts department, including a couple who are expecting their first child in April. They...
