Sentences with phrase «enhanced parental leave policy»

The enhanced parental leave policy is the newest addition to our existing leave policies which include 16 weeks of paid maternity, adoption and surrogacy leave for primary caregivers.

Not exact matches

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.

Concrete actions by policy makers, already practised in many counties, are: matching paid parental leave to the rate and duration observed in Scandinavian countries; providing adequate public funding and developing tax policies that allow parents to make appropriate child - rearing choices, paying greater attention to children from poor or diverse backgrounds; integrating child care and early education under one ministry or agency and thereby enhancing quality, qualification requirements, accessibility and affordability.