Carers

The 2025/26 rates for statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and sick pay have now been published by the government.

Carers UK urges the government to make changes to legislation so that working carers can have one week of paid leave per year.

E.ON UK wins Family-Friendly Employer of the Year Award 2024.

Thousands of people caring for loved ones with dementia are being left to cope alone, a poll has suggested.
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Almost one in six ‘sandwich carers’ find it difficult to cope financially, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.

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Hundreds of thousands of care workers were short-changed by up to £3,698 in pay last year, new data reveals

Deloitte UK announces it is equalising parental leave, the first of the Big Four accounting firms to do so.

The average weekly wage for a full-time working woman in Yorkshire and the Humber was £567, much lower than the national average.

Four in five (80%) of carer employees said that additional paid carer’s leave would help them to balance work and caring responsibilities, according to new research.

Personnel Today asks whether the new wage threshold and dependants ban are working only too well – and may cause lasting damage to health services.

An appeal by British Airways relating to associative discrimination and its practice of ‘fire and rehire’ has been thrown out by the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Time women spend out of paid work for caring responsibilities one of most significant contributing factors to gender pensions gap.

Carers UK calls for caring to be made a protected characteristic after finding that many unpaid carers have experienced discrimination.

British Airway takes on government and equalities watchdog at EAT over associative discrimination case relating to ‘fire and rehire’ during the pandemic.