Shared parental leave
Shared parental leave and pay is available to parents of babies due on or after 5 April 2015 and allows eligible women to curtail their right to maternity leave to enable their partner to take shared parental leave. Eligible parents can share 50 weeks' leave and 37 weeks' pay. Similar rules will apply for adoptive parents.
This pages list all content on shared parental leave in date order. Our employer's guide to shared parental leave features selected content to help employers manage the regulations and help make key decisions around enhancing pay and dealing with requests for discontinuous leave.
Family-friendly rights: what to look out for in 2020 and beyond
Brexit seemed to put the brakes on progress for family-friendly rights last year, but 2020 and beyond could see some...
Top 10 HR questions December 2019: Sickness absence and unused annual leave
How much control can employers have over the timing of employees’ annual leave?
Employers with holiday years that run from...
The 10 most important employment law cases in 2019
We round up the most significant cases of the year including legal judgments on CCTV, restrictive covenants, enhancing shared parental leave, collective bargaining and more...
Only 15 FTSE 250 firms publicise parental leave policies
Only 15 of the organisations in the FTSE 250 are telling job candidates how much paid leave they could expect...
What needs to change before we can close the gender pay gap
Headline-grabbing proposals can only take us so far. Cultural shifts and changes in shared leave, maternity and paternity benefits are needed before we can truly get to grips with the gender pay gap.
Labour promises 12 months of maternity pay
The Labour Party has pledged to increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months as part of a raft...
Top 10 HR questions October 2019: Right to be accompanied
Should employers give employees the right to be accompanied to meetings under a redundancy procedure?
Such a meeting could ultimately...
Standard Life Aberdeen offers nine months’ fully paid leave for all new parents
Standard Life Aberdeen will offer nine months’ fully paid leave from January.
Jersey to offer 52 weeks’ parental leave to all parents
New parents in Jersey will be offered up to 52 weeks’ leave in new legislation that has been described as...
Employment law changes: 10 proposals in the pipeline for HR
Amid all the political turmoil in July, employers will be forgiven for missing a flurry of proposed new employment laws...
New parents and expectant mothers to receive more redundancy protections
The legal protections for pregnant women and new mothers are to be extended to six months after they return to...
Paid leave proposed for parents of premature babies
Parents of premature babies could be entitled to one week of paid leave for every week their baby is in hospital.
Social attitudes: One in three say parental leave should be shared
A third of people believe parental leave should be shared equally, according to a major survey, while only 12% think...
Theresa May considers 12 weeks’ paid paternity policy
Theresa May could offer fathers 12 weeks’ paid paternity leave as one of her ’legacy’ policies before she leaves office as Prime Minister.
One in four dads miss out on paid paternity leave
Almost a quarter (23%) of new fathers did not qualify for statutory paid paternity leave last year, either because they...
