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.
Forty-four outstanding UK organisations have been shortlisted across 9 categories in the 2010 Top Employers for Working Families Awards.The awards, organised...
Additional paternity leave regulations introduced prior to the general election by the previous Government look set to be scrapped by...
Organisations are being given an extra two weeks to register and enter the Top Employers for Working Families Awards. The new...
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Fathers will be able to enjoy new paternity benefits in a year's time. Joanne Christie explores the implications for HR.
Labour’s proposal to increase statutory paternity leave by two weeks will do little to encourage take-up, according to leading HR...
Labour will attempt to win back the business vote today after last week saw more than 100 senior executives criticise...
Changes to employment law in force from April 2010 include the replacement of the sicknote with a new fit-note system,...
One in five fathers are unaware of their paternity rights, according to the government.A survey of 560 fathers found that...
Employment lawyers have questioned whether fathers will take up the additional paternity leave and pay that they will be entitled...
There is so much written about maternity leave and its impact on the workplace, but until recently the father’s role...
Employers need not panic as EU proposals to increase unpaid parental leave from three to four months were accepted in...
The consultation on allowing fathers up to six months extra paternity leave once the mother has returned to work ends...
New fathers should be given better paid paternity leave and extra parental leave, according to a report from the Equality...
As part of its ‘family-friendly’ drive, in 2004, the government announced its plans to allow mothers to pass a portion...
