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How employers manage maternity leave: the 2012 XpertHR survey

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Source: IRS Employment Review

Date: 30-04-2012

Publisher: IRS

How employers manage maternity leave: the 2012 XpertHR survey

TOPICS:

terms, conditions and employee rights	working time and leave working patterns
HR policy and strategy	work organisation
employee relations	employee relations challenges and tools

SECTORS:
manufacturing (other)
public services
services (other)

AUTHOR: Charlotte Wolff

Keeping-in-touch days are now used widely by employees on maternity leave, and are valued by HR professionals as a way to maintain employee engagement, according to latest XpertHR research.

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Keeping-in-touch policies
Examples of keeping-in-touch procedures
Chart 1: Content of keeping-in-touch policies
Take-up of keeping-in-touch days
Chart 2: Proportion of women using keeping-in-touch days
Chart 3: Number of keeping-in-touch days typically used during 2011
HR views on keeping-in-touch days
Who instigates keeping-in-touch days?
Returning to work
Chart 4: Proportion of women within organisations returning to work after maternity leave
Easing the transition back to work
Briefings, phased returns and coaching
Box 1: Case study - support for returning mothers
Box 2: Examples of transition arrangements
Our research
Additional resources on XpertHR.

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