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.
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....
The parents of babies due on or after 5 April 2015 will be the first to benefit from new shared...
Only 15% of employers have a clear idea about how they will implement the forthcoming rights to take shared parental...
Employers who offer enhanced maternity pay may face discrimination claims if they do not extend the benefit to men when...
Shared parental leave will give working parents more choice in how they care for their child in the first year...
A new system of statutory parental rights will be introduced next year, which will inevitably place additional administrative burdens on...
XpertHR is carrying out a survey of occupational maternity and paternity pay rates offered by UK employers and we would...
Legislation that will bring into force various changes to maternity, paternity and adoption rights has completed its route through Parliament....
Coalition intentions to “cut red tape” for employers may be at risk, after draft Regulations for shared parental leave were...
After a long wait, the shared parental leave proposals are about to become law. Yet take-up by new fathers is...
As the Government confirms its plans to introduce shared parental leave, Elizabeth Clery, research director in the Society and Social...
Shared parental leave will be introduced in April 2015 after the Government confirmed its intentions for mothers to be able to effectively share their maternity leave.
