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Family-friendly working

Employees have a number of fundamental family-friendly rights in the workplace. These include the right to maternity leave, paternity leave, and adoption leave. Shared parental leave is available to parents of children due on or after 5 April 2015, and adopters where the child is placed for adoption on or after 5 April 2015. Ordinary parental leave is a type of unpaid leave that can be taken until the child’s 18th birthday.

From 30 June 2015, the right to request flexible working was extended to all employees with 26 weeks’ qualifying service. Prior to this date, it was available to parents of young children and carers. All employees are also entitled to take a reasonable amount of time off work “to take action which is necessary” in relation to the care of certain dependants.


    • Nursery provision
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    • Economics, government & business

    Budget 2023: Free childcare expanded to younger children

    by Jo Faragher 15 Mar 2023
    by Jo Faragher 15 Mar 2023

    Free childcare for working parents in England will be expanded to children between the ages of nine months and two,...

    • Nursery provision
    • Childcare
    • Economics, government & business

    What can we expect from the ‘back-to-work’ Budget?

    by Jo Faragher 13 Mar 2023
    by Jo Faragher 13 Mar 2023

    The Chancellor has hinted that this week’s Budget will be a ‘back-to-work’ plan that will offer more help with childcare...

    • Working from home
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    • Holidays and holiday pay

    Winter weather and work: five common employer queries

    by Stephen Simpson 8 Mar 2023
    by Stephen Simpson 8 Mar 2023

    Employers' questions on pay, attendance and childcare that are likely to arise during snowy weather.

    • Gender pay gap
    • Gender
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    International Women’s Day 2023 puts equity above equality

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Mar 2023

    The message of International Women’s Day 2023 is that businesses and individuals should ‘embrace equity’. What does this mean?

    • Gender pay gap
    • Gender
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    France rated best overall for gender equality in the workplace

    by Adam McCulloch 3 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 3 Mar 2023

    UK-based drinks supplier Diageo is the second highest placed firm in a study of global gender equality.

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    • Sex discrimination

    Twitter faces sex discrimination case in the US following mass sackings

    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Dec 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Dec 2022

    Former Twitter employees have filed a sex discrimination class action case, claiming women were disproportionately affected by dismissals.

    • Gender pay gap
    • Legal sector
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    Female lawyers more likely to leave jobs than men

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Dec 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Dec 2022

    More female lawyers in the UK than men are dissatisfied with their employers – to the extent that 36% are at risk of leaving their firm over the next two years.

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    Personnel Today Awards 2022: RHP wins Family Friendly Employer of the Year award

    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Nov 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Nov 2022

    An organisation noted for its ‘style and panache’ won this year's Family Friendly Employer of the Year Award.

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    • Hybrid working

    Hybrid working: executives returning to office less than employees

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Apr 2022

    As hybrid working is frowned upon by Jacon Rees-Mogg, research suggests executives spend more time working from home than the employees they are urging to return to the office.

    • Gender
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    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Ban salary history questions: Andrew Bazeley talks to Oven-Ready HR

    by Chris Taylor 18 Mar 2022
    by Chris Taylor 18 Mar 2022

    The Fawcett Society's Andrew Bazeley talks to Chris Taylor about why salary history questions should be banned in the recruitment process

    • Gender pay gap
    • Gender
    • Latest News

    IWD: We need to address bias, not women’s choices

    by Sarah Jackson 8 Mar 2022
    by Sarah Jackson 8 Mar 2022

    Organisations need to challenge assumptions that women make choices that hinder their careers, and focus on systemic bias instead.

    • Ethnicity
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    • Carers

    Women and ethnic minorities suffer impact of juggling care and work

    by Jo Faragher 7 Mar 2022
    by Jo Faragher 7 Mar 2022

    Almost six out of 10 women avoid applying for promotion because it was too hard to balance work and care.

    • Working from home
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    • Shared parental leave

    Personnel Today Awards 2021: Financial Services Compensation Scheme commended as Family-Friendly Employer of the Year

    by Personnel Today 16 Nov 2021
    by Personnel Today 16 Nov 2021

    The Financial Services Compensation Scheme was awarded the Family-Friendly Employer of the Year title at the 2021 Personnel Today Awards.

    • Working from home
    • Gender
    • Indirect discrimination

    Catherine Mann view of remote working dismissed as ‘categorically wrong’

    by Adam McCulloch 12 Nov 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 12 Nov 2021

    Hybrid working implemented correctly should not discriminate against women, argue critics of Catherine Mann comments.

    • Gender
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    • Leadership

    Barriers to gender equality: Romanie Thomas talks to Oven-Ready HR

    by Chris Taylor 5 Nov 2021
    by Chris Taylor 5 Nov 2021

    Creating a workplace environment that encourages and enables women to take on senior leadership roles continues to be a thorny...

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