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.
Calls to extend parental leave and pay for families because of the Covid-19 pandemic have been rejected by the government,...
Although the use of shared parental leave increased by 23 percentage points last year only 13,100 couples applied to use the scheme.
Employers warned they could lose out on the best talent if they do not include transparency over family friendly working arrangements.
Furloughed workers taking parental or adoption leave will receive parental or adoption pay based on their usual earnings, not the...
Five years after its introduction, the number of fathers claiming shared parental leave has increased by over two thirds since...
Each April, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the latest round of amended employment laws and deadlines....
A quarter of mothers do not return to the same employer after maternity leave because they feel the organisation’s practices...
A highly anticipated case to test whether it is discriminatory for employers to enhance maternity pay while not doing the...
Almost two-fifths of employees who plan to have children in the future expect to take shared parental leave – a...
Brexit seemed to put the brakes on progress for family-friendly rights last year, but 2020 and beyond could see some...
How much control can employers have over the timing of employees’ annual leave?
Employers with holiday years that run from...
We round up the most significant cases of the year including legal judgments on CCTV, restrictive covenants, enhancing shared parental leave, collective bargaining and more...
Only 15 of the organisations in the FTSE 250 are telling job candidates how much paid leave they could expect...
Headline-grabbing proposals can only take us so far. Cultural shifts and changes in shared leave, maternity and paternity benefits are needed before we can truly get to grips with the gender pay gap.
The Labour Party has pledged to increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months as part of a raft...
