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.
To attract overseas business investment, Singapore has concluded an international network of trade agreements. Changes to Singapore employment law in...
The Government has published the statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay and sick pay...
Employers who pay mothers different rates of shared parental pay to fathers run the risk of sex discrimination claims, following...
ON DEMAND |What do employers need to consider when an employee or an employee's partner has a baby? Parental rights in recent years have been broadened to include the mother’s ...
Statutory maternity pay and statutory sick pay rates will not rise in 2016. The Government has proposed no annual increase...
George Osborne’s announcement that working grandparents will be eligible to shared parental leave entitlement looks like a progressive move, but...
Sweden is planning to offer new fathers a third month of paid paternity leave, its Government has announced.
The country...
With all the focus on shared parental leave, employers may have missed changes to entitlement to “ordinary” parental leave that...
The HR profession supports shared parental leave in principle, but it is concerned that the new right is complex to...
Soon we will see the first parents eligible for shared parental leave take advantage of the new right. Policy aside,...
Shared parental leave, perhaps the most significant piece of employment law to be passed by the coalition Government, is upon...
Nearly two-thirds of fathers would consider discussing shared parental leave with their employer if they had children in the future,...
However changeable employment law may be, one thing you can rely on is that many of those employment law changes...
A future Labour government would double statutory paternity leave and pay, under election plans announced today.
New fathers would have...
