Shared parental leave and pay 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 apply for adoptive parents.
Statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay are only available to employees with six months’ service. This is dissuading prospective parents from changing jobs.
Saga has announced it will offer grandparents a week of paid time off to celebrate the birth of their grandchildren....
Six in 10 parents or expectant parents would switch jobs for better parental leave, a survey by Virgin Money has...
Last week saw Equal Pay Day – the day when women effectively stop earning due to their pay gap with...
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme was awarded the Family-Friendly Employer of the Year title at the 2021 Personnel Today Awards.
The John Lewis Partnership has paid bonuses to senior managers despite not paying its partnership bonus for the first time in nearly 70 years.
The number of jobs offering generous and extended parental leave has incresed, according to Indeed.
Labour wants stronger protections for pregnant employees and new mothers, as well as the reinstatement of gender pay gap reporting enforcement.
Almost two-thirds of organisations offer enhanced maternity pay and most offer paternity pay that is more generous than statutory requirements.
Campaigners call on government to scrap shared parental leave in favour of meaningful reform that tackles childcare inequality.
Will the pandemic bring about a shift in perception of fathers accessing parental leave or is there a need for a more drastic approach?
An annual update on the changes to employment law that are happening in April 2021 – IR35, national living wage, statutory pay rates...
Volvo Cars has today announced the global roll-out of its brand new ‘Family Bond’ paid parental leave policy after a...
Major survey finds 78% of working mothers have not been able to gain furlough funding.
The government has published the proposed statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay, parental bereavement...
