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.
New parents in Jersey will be offered up to 52 weeks’ leave in new legislation that has been described as...
Amid all the political turmoil in July, employers will be forgiven for missing a flurry of proposed new employment laws...
The legal protections for pregnant women and new mothers are to be extended to six months after they return to...
Parents of premature babies could be entitled to one week of paid leave for every week their baby is in hospital.
A third of people believe parental leave should be shared equally, according to a major survey, while only 12% think...
Theresa May could offer fathers 12 weeks’ paid paternity leave as one of her ’legacy’ policies before she leaves office as Prime Minister.
Almost a quarter (23%) of new fathers did not qualify for statutory paid paternity leave last year, either because they...
JPMorgan Chase will pay $5m to settle a discrimination claim filed by a male employee in the US
The Court of Appeal has ruled that employers can enhance maternity pay, while only offering statutory shared parental pay for fathers.
The government is accused of dragging its feet over protections for new mothers as a private member's bill is introduced in the House of Commons...
Denmark has some of the most generous parental leave and childcare support schemes in the world. But have these had...
The Court of Appeal has heard two cases that consider whether it is discriminatory for employers to enhance maternity pay but not shared parental pay
Support for flexible working should be visible from leadership level to help create “human-sized” jobs that enable a greater work-life...
Large organisations should be forced to publish retention rates for new mothers returning to the workplace in order to tackle...
With reports citing that only 1% of those eligible took a period of shared parental leave in 2018 it is...
