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Shared parental leave

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.


    • Shared parental leave

    Will shared parental leave transform family-friendly working?

    by Personnel Today 15 May 2015
    by Personnel Today 15 May 2015

    The new right to shared parental leave is intended to promote a major culture shift in the sharing of childcare...

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    • Shared parental leave
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    Top 10 HR questions in April 2015: TUPE

    by Personnel Today 1 May 2015
    by Personnel Today 1 May 2015

    Employers often want to harmonise terms and conditions if they inherit employees as a result of a TUPE transfer. Are...

    • Adoption
    • Shared parental leave

    Shared parental leave and overseas adoption: five key differences

    by Jeya Thiruchelvam 22 Apr 2015
    by Jeya Thiruchelvam 22 Apr 2015

    Many employers will now have their procedures in place to deal with shared parental leave in a birth situation, and...

    • Shared parental leave
    • Maternity
    • Paternity

    HR professionals criticise complexity of shared parental leave

    by Michael Carty 7 Apr 2015
    by Michael Carty 7 Apr 2015

    The HR profession supports shared parental leave in principle, but it is concerned that the new right is complex to...

    • Adoption
    • Shared parental leave

    Adoption and shared parental leave: eight steps for employers

    by Stephen Simpson 2 Apr 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 2 Apr 2015

    Many employers will now have their shared parental leave policy to cover birth situations in place. But how does shared...

    • Enhanced pay
    • Shared parental leave
    • Family-friendly working

    One employer in five enhances shared parental pay

    by Michael Carty 1 Apr 2015
    by Michael Carty 1 Apr 2015

    One-fifth of employers have decided to enhance their shared parental pay, while the same number remain undecided. This is according...

    • Enhanced pay
    • Shared parental leave
    • Maternity

    Shared parental leave: how to help fathers feel comfortable taking time off

    by Jeremy Davies 30 Mar 2015
    by Jeremy Davies 30 Mar 2015

    Soon we will see the first parents eligible for shared parental leave take advantage of the new right. Policy aside,...

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    • Shared parental leave
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Jo Swinson: shared parental leave “no more complex” than maternity leave

    by Jo Swinson 27 Mar 2015
    by Jo Swinson 27 Mar 2015

    Shared parental leave, perhaps the most significant piece of employment law to be passed by the coalition Government, is upon...

    • Shared parental leave
    • SME

    Small businesses unprepared for shared parental leave

    by Rob Moss 20 Mar 2015
    by Rob Moss 20 Mar 2015

    Many small businesses are unprepared for shared parental leave and do not expect their staff to want to take it,...

    • Shared parental leave
    • Paternity

    Two-thirds of fathers open to taking shared parental leave

    by Jo Faragher 17 Mar 2015
    by Jo Faragher 17 Mar 2015

    Nearly two-thirds of fathers would consider discussing shared parental leave with their employer if they had children in the future,...

    • Shared parental leave
    • Maternity
    • Paternity

    April 2015 employment law changes: an eight-point checklist

    by Clio Springer 11 Mar 2015
    by Clio Springer 11 Mar 2015

    However changeable employment law may be, one thing you can rely on is that many of those employment law changes...

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    • Shared parental leave

    Top 10 HR questions in February 2015: E-cigarettes

    by Personnel Today 3 Mar 2015
    by Personnel Today 3 Mar 2015

    E-cigarettes and smoking policies were on employers’ minds last month, with the first tribunal decision involving disciplinary action for using...

    • Discontinuous shared parental leave
    • Enhanced pay
    • Shared parental leave

    Shared parental leave: how does your organisation compare?

    by Michael Carty 23 Feb 2015
    by Michael Carty 23 Feb 2015

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

    • Discontinuous shared parental leave
    • Enhanced pay
    • HR software

    Shared parental leave: what are the technology implications?

    by Andrew Chamberlain and Heather Vitty 16 Feb 2015
    by Andrew Chamberlain and Heather Vitty 16 Feb 2015

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

    • Shared parental leave
    • Paternity
    • Political elections

    Labour would double paternity leave and pay

    by Rob Moss 9 Feb 2015
    by Rob Moss 9 Feb 2015

    A future Labour government would double statutory paternity leave and pay, under election plans announced today.
    New fathers would have...

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