Shared parental leave – an employer’s guide

A quarter of mothers do not return to the same employer after maternity leave because they feel the organisation’s practices...

A highly anticipated case to test whether it is discriminatory for employers to enhance maternity pay while not doing the...

Almost two-fifths of employees who plan to have children in the future expect to take shared parental leave – a...

Brexit seemed to put the brakes on progress for family-friendly rights last year, but 2020 and beyond could see some...

How much control can employers have over the timing of employees’ annual leave?
Employers with holiday years that run from...

We round up the most significant cases of the year including legal judgments on CCTV, restrictive covenants, enhancing shared parental leave, collective bargaining and more...

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.