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.
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...
Should employers give employees the right to be accompanied to meetings under a redundancy procedure?
Such a meeting could ultimately...
Standard Life Aberdeen will offer nine months’ fully paid leave from January.
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...
