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Shared parental leave

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.


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    Top 10 HR questions November 2017: Gender pay gap reporting looms large

    by Brightmine 7 Dec 2017
    by Brightmine 7 Dec 2017

    Employers have just under five months left to publish their gender pay gap reports. Most employers covered by the gender...

    • Adoption
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    New statutory pay rates for maternity, paternity, shared parental leave, adoption and sickness

    by Brightmine 27 Nov 2017
    by Brightmine 27 Nov 2017

    The Government has published the statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay and sick pay...

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    Aviva announces enhanced shared parental leave policy for all employees

    by Jo Faragher 27 Nov 2017
    by Jo Faragher 27 Nov 2017

    Insurance company Aviva has announced that all employees – regardless of gender, sexual orientation or how they became a parent ...

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    Pregnant women and new mothers need more legal protection

    by Jo Faragher 7 Nov 2017
    by Jo Faragher 7 Nov 2017

    A charity has called for greater legal protections for new mothers, claiming the Government has failed to act on the...

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    Acas study urges higher take-up of flexible working 

    by Noel O'Reilly 13 Sep 2017
    by Noel O'Reilly 13 Sep 2017

    A report published today by Acas calls for more flexible working for parents returning to work after parental leave as...

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    Pay gaps need to tackle ethnicity and disability as well as gender, urges EHRC

    by Jo Faragher 15 Aug 2017
    by Jo Faragher 15 Aug 2017

    All jobs should be advertised as available for flexible working and fathers should receive ‘use it or lose it’ parental...

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    Six important employment law cases in 2017

    by Laura Merrylees 28 Jul 2017
    by Laura Merrylees 28 Jul 2017

    The decision by the Supreme Court that the employment tribunal fees system is unlawful may be one of the most...

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    • Apprenticeships

    Top 10 HR questions June 2017: Maximum workplace temperature

    by Personnel Today 4 Jul 2017
    by Personnel Today 4 Jul 2017

    With a temperature of 34.5°C recorded at Heathrow, 21 June 2017 was Britain’s hottest June day for 40 years.
    Whether...

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    Family-friendly rights: a whistle-stop tour

    by Sarah Anderson 23 Jun 2017
    by Sarah Anderson 23 Jun 2017

    Shared parental leave has been in the press again of late, with a new father winning a sex discrimination claim...

    • Adoption
    • Enhanced pay
    • Shared parental leave

    Enhancing family-friendly pay: pros and cons for employers

    by Stephen Simpson 16 Jun 2017
    by Stephen Simpson 16 Jun 2017

    Whether or not to enhance pay during maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave is a perennial dilemma for employers....

    • Case law
    • Enhanced pay
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    Shared parental pay: Is refusal to match enhanced maternity pay sex discrimination?

    by Darren Newman 13 Jun 2017
    by Darren Newman 13 Jun 2017

    Darren Newman asks if an employment tribunal was correct to hold that it was...

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    Election 2017: where do the parties stand on employment issues?

    by Jo Faragher 7 Jun 2017
    by Jo Faragher 7 Jun 2017

    As campaigning draws to a close, we run down the policies that would most influence the employment landscape

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    • Maternity

    Shared parental pay: father wins sex discrimination case

    by Personnel Today 6 Jun 2017
    by Personnel Today 6 Jun 2017

    A father whose wife was advised to return to work to combat post-natal depression has won a sex discrimination claim...

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    • Shared parental leave
    • Gender

    Are fathers’ rights at work working?

    by John Smith 1 Jun 2017
    by John Smith 1 Jun 2017

    Despite the introduction of shared parental leave, employers have been slow to enhance fathers’ rights at work. John Smith, a...

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    • Brexit

    Tory manifesto: National retraining, NI holidays and more gap reporting

    by Rob Moss 18 May 2017
    by Rob Moss 18 May 2017

    Theresa May launched the Conservative Party’s 2017 election manifesto today, and for HR and employers there are no big surprises....

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