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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.


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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.

    • Hybrid working
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    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.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Gender
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    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
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    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.

    • Carers
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    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.

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    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.

    • Hybrid working
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Gender

    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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    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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    Duchess of Sussex calls for federal paid parental leave in the US

    by Rob Moss 21 Oct 2021
    by Rob Moss 21 Oct 2021

    Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has written to the US Congress calling for paid leave for parents to be written...

    • Gender
    • Maternity
    • Latest News

    Employers turn down half of flexible work requests from working mothers: survey

    by Adam McCulloch 15 Oct 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 15 Oct 2021

    TUC and Mother Pukka survey finds 50% of working mothers have experienced their employer rejecting or only accepting part of their flexible working request.

    • Latest News
    • Family-friendly benefits
    • Family-friendly working

    Businesses praised – and shamed – over family-friendly benefits transparency

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Oct 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Oct 2021

    Businesses failing to be transparent over family-friendly working policies include Aldi, American Express, Boots, Channel 4, Huawei, Penguin Random House, and Tesla.

    • Hybrid working
    • Carers
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Day-one right to request flexible working consultation confirmed

    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Sep 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Sep 2021

    A consultation seeks views on making the right to request flexible working avaialble from an employee's first day at work.

    • Hybrid working
    • Carers
    • Latest News

    Flexible approaches to open up work to 4 million

    by Jo Faragher 22 Sep 2021
    by Jo Faragher 22 Sep 2021

    Flexible and hybrid working could open up the jobs market to almost four million people, research from the Centre for...

    • Parental bereavement leave
    • Legal sector
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    Law firm offers two weeks’ pregnancy loss leave

    by Ashleigh Webber 22 Sep 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 22 Sep 2021

    Royds Withy King has launched a new pregnancy loss policy that offers two weeks’ paid leave following pregnancy loss before 24 weeks.

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