Maternity & Paternity

Understanding Pregnant Employee Rights in the Workplace

Understanding Pregnant Employee Rights in the Workplace

It's important as an employer to fully understand pregnant employee rights to ensure a supportive and compliant workplace. Your employees may have some work related concerns during this time and it's important to reassure them as much as possible. The main questions...

What are the paternity leave rights for fathers?

What are the paternity leave rights for fathers?

We get asked HR related questions every day and each week we will be sharing our top question of the week that we have been asked here at The HR Booth. In this week's question of the week, Alistair discusses paternity leave. Question We have recently had a new...

Shared Parental Leave – Are you Ready or this major change?

Shared Parental Leave – Are you Ready or this major change?

From 5th April 2015, the final round of changes to “family-friendly” rights under the current government comes into effect. A new system of shared parental leave will replace additional paternity leave, for parents of babies due from 5th April. So what is it? Shared...

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