Sentences with phrase «shared parental leave policy»

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The policy is still relatively new, and so has yet to take a firm foothold in many workplaces yet alone families, but with modern dads wanting to be more involved than ever, we wanted to find out the specific reasons why more shared parental leave pay wouldn't necessarily mean more take - up, and why so few new parents were having those conversations about it in the first place.

Measures like the year's shared parental leave that starts in April 2015, and is one of the Lib Dems» proudest contributions to coalition policy, do matter.

At the start of the month, there was widespread reporting about the poor take up by men of shared parental leave — a policy introduced in April 2015 providing men with the opportunity to care full time for their new baby.

The issue of whether it is discriminatory to enhance maternity pay but not shared parental pay remains unresolved by the higher courts, but this decision ought to prompt employers to review their policies about enhanced pay to avoid falling into the trap that Network Rail did, and also to ensure that there is parity between the provisions of any policies relating to shared parental leave in general.

The policy in place at the relevant time was that mothers were paid at an enhanced rate for up to 26 weeks of shared parental leave, (and at the statutory rate for 13 weeks thereafter) but there was no equivalent benefit for fathers, who were only entitled to statutory shared parental pay for the duration of their period of leave.