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.
Campaign groups have warned that the government’s new paternity rights do not go far enough to encourage fathers to take...
After agreements between EU-level trade union and employers’ organisations in summer 2009, new EU directives about parental leave and preventing...
New paternity rights will cause an administrative nightmare, say employers’ groups. The new rights, to be announced today, will allow...
Parental leave could rise to four months if an EU framework agreement is applied in the UK.The agreement to increase...
The government has delayed new paternity leave proposals due to the recession, but is this a move in the right direction?
Plans to give fathers six months paternity leave have been shelved by the government to help employers during the recession.The...
Statutory maternity pay should be scaled back and fathers should get eight weeks of paid leave, the equalities watchdog has...
Rumours are rife that proposed family rights will now be scrapped. Good thing, too.
For the past three years, Citigroup has run training workshops for new and expectant mums. That programme has gone well,...
How long does someone have to work for you before they qualify for statutory maternity pay? What is the national...
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Unions legal experts warn organisations not to use the economic downturn as a...
Extended maternity leave rights risk sabotaging women’s careers, the head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has warned. Nicola...
KPMG has launched a new maternity and parenting package for its employees, as it predicts that it will become more...
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New parents would be able to take up to 26 weeks’ leave together if they wished under Conservative proposals.The government...
