Pregnant employees’ partners are entitled to take two weeks’ ordinary paternity leave provided that they have the required continuous service.
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.
Rules surrounding the eligibility for shared parental leave have been criticised after the TUC found that two in five men...
Shared parental leave might feel like something for April 2015, but it is already having an impact on employers. We...
The Government has published details of the rate at which statutory shared parental pay will be paid from April 2015,...
Fathers working in the civil service who want to share parental leave will be entitled to the same benefits and...
A new right for fathers and partners to take time off to attend antenatal appointments came in on 1 October...
There has been a raft of employment law changes for HR to get to grips with already this year, including...
October sees the introduction of brand new antenatal rights for fathers to take time off work to accompany a pregnant woman to see a midwife or...
An employment tribunal has awarded a policewoman more than £37,000 after finding that the Metropolitan Police committed race and sex...
Ford has successfully defended its policy of paying...
If an employer pays enhanced maternity pay, must it also enhance pay to employees on shared parental leave? This seems...
The Liberal Democrats would give fathers four weeks’ extra paternity leave under manifesto plans announced at the weekend.
Fathers are...
Consultant editor Darren Newman provides an overview of the new right to shared parental leave and suggests that, while the...
The rules on who will be eligible to take shared parental leave are complex, as are the rules on the...
Shared parental leave comes in early next year, introducing some significant changes to the existing regime of family-friendly leave. The...
Most organisations that offer their staff...
