Discontinuous shared parental leave

The flexibility offered by shared parental leave ppeals to parents, but can be a headache for employers from a resourcing perspective.

Employers are more than twice as likely (102%) to offer enhanced parental leave packages compared with last year, analysis has shown.

With reports citing that only 1% of those eligible took a period of shared parental leave in 2018 it is...

UCL research suggests that shared parental leave is failing, with financial implications and strict eligibility creating barriers...

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 ...

Employers that enhance shared parental pay are twice as likely to receive shared parental leave requests as those who offer...

Streaming media giant Netflix has announced that it will offer new parents unlimited paid leave for a year. But employers...

Is your organisation fully prepared for shared parental leave? XpertHR is conducting a short benchmarking survey on how employers plan...

The legal aspects of the new rights to shared parental leave have been scrutinised at length, but how can HR...

Confusion remains as to how employers should tackle the prospect of parents stopping and starting their shared parental leave. Can...

Shared parental leave does not have to be taken in one consecutive block; employees can stop and start their leave....

The conciliation service Acas has today published a new guide to shared parental leave (SPL).
It aims to help employers...

A new right for fathers and partners to take time off to attend antenatal appointments came in on 1 October...

Shared parental leave comes in early next year, introducing some significant changes to the existing regime of family-friendly leave. The...

ON DEMAND | Audrey Williams and Camilla Palmer join Rob Moss to discuss how the shared parental leave rules will work.