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.
May 2024's most sought after FAQs on Brightmine include how to manage poor performance and calculating redundancy pay.
Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Act 2024 passes into law giving working fathers automatic rights to paternity leave if the mother dies.
April 2024's most popular FAQs on Brightmine, formerly XpertHR, include queries around minimum wage rules and holiday pay.
Firefighters and fire control employees receive maternity pay improvements and increases to basic and on-call pay.
Dr Holly Andrews examines how employers should create an inclusive workplace for an unseen minority of childless employees.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has updated its pregnancy and maternity protections guidance to reflect new rights for employees.
What do changes to maternity redundancy protections in April 2024 mean for HR?
Personnel Today provides an HR checklist of things to do in April 2024, as new employment laws come into force in the UK.
A mother who was stereotyped as an emotional pregnant woman by her manager has won a constructive dismissal claim against Mitie.
A quarter of women working in UK offices feel they been shamed or pressured to return to work early when...
Chief people officer Claire Douglas-Pennant shares her organisation's approach to supporting returning parents and what employers can learn.
Google has announced a range of enhanced family-friendly and fertility benefits for its UK workforce.
Statutory paternity leave changes, which will apply to parents of children born on or after 6 April 2024, have been enacted.
Tesco pay rises by 9.1% as it reaches agreement with the Usdaw union to take the supermarket's hourly pay above the 2024 ‘real’ Living Wage.Â
Four out of 10 women (42%) say they do not feel comfortable discussing health issues with their manager, with many...
