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.
Fathers working in the civil service who want to share parental leave will be entitled to the same benefits and...
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...
With the sand finally gone from between your toes and the flip flops banished to the back of the wardrobe,...
Ford has successfully defended its policy of paying...
If an employer pays enhanced maternity pay, must it also enhance pay to employees on shared parental leave? This seems...
The Liberal Democrats would give fathers four weeks’ extra paternity leave under manifesto plans announced at the weekend.
Fathers are...
Consultant editor Darren Newman provides an overview of the new right to shared parental leave and suggests that, while the...
The rules on who will be eligible to take shared parental leave are complex, as are the rules on the...
Shared parental leave comes in early next year, introducing some significant changes to the existing regime of family-friendly leave. The...
Most organisations that offer their staff...
Employers were getting to grips with various changes to family-friendly workplace rights last month.
ON DEMAND | Audrey Williams and Camilla Palmer join Rob Moss to discuss how the shared parental leave rules will work.
HR professionals support the new right to shared parental leave due to come into force in 2015, but have concerns about how it will work in practice, according to new research.
Three million people in the UK combine work with care. An ageing population means that this figure will rise significantly....
