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.
The Liberal Democrats have pledged a ‘dad month’ of paternity leave if they get into power in July’s general election.
Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Act 2024 passes into law giving working fathers automatic rights to paternity leave if the mother dies.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has updated its pregnancy and maternity protections guidance to reflect new rights for employees.
Personnel Today provides an HR checklist of things to do in April 2024, as new employment laws come into force in the UK.
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
The flexibility offered by shared parental leave ppeals to parents, but can be a headache for employers from a resourcing perspective.
The Parental Fog Index 2023 Cross-Industry report, which analyses developments in businesses’ parental policies, also found that fewer employers publish basic details of paternity leave and pay than maternity.
Fathers who work in HR and recruitment feel that taking paternity leave has impacted their careers, a survey has found.
Currys has announced a series of new benefits to support equality, diversity and inclusion, including additional paid gender reassignment leave.
Less than a fifth of UK workers think two weeks paternity is enough and the majority would take longer if they could afford it, new research has found.
The Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill and the Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill gain Royal Assent.
A lack of affordable childcare in the UK is forcing women out of work and hampering career progression.
