Family-friendly rights and support

New and updated

• Podcast: HR developments 2018/2019

  Date:

  14 December 2018

  Type:

  Audio and video

  We review the key employment law developments of 2018 and the impact of these for HR, including: Brexit; the GDPR; the apprenticeship levy; pay reporting; parental bereavement leave; and family-friendly policies.

• 2019 employment law: eight changes to look out for

  Date:

  13 December 2018

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  Although Brexit dominates the news, there will be a number of important employment law developments in 2019. We set out an eight-point plan so employers can prepare.

• Cases on appeal

  Type:

  Law reports

  Updated to reflect that the Court of Appeal will hear the appeals in Ali v Capita Customer Management Ltd and Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police on 1 May 2019.

• Podcast: Flexible working policies and practice at PwC

  Date:

  30 November 2018

  Type:

  Audio and video

  Charlotte Billot-Taylor, leader - employee relations, policy & advice at PwC, discusses her organisation's approach to flexible working and transparency around family-friendly policies.

• Government must fulfil promises to keep carers in work

  Date:

  29 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  The government has been urged to act on the Conservative Party's 2017 pledge to introduce specific employment rights for working carers, such as statutory leave, to help keep them in the workplace.

• 2019 statutory pay rates revealed

  Date:

  28 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  The Government has published the statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay and sick pay from April 2019.

• Statutory shared parental pay

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include the proposed statutory shared parental pay rates for 2019/2020.

• Maternity allowance

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include the proposed maternity allowance rates for 2019/2020.

• Statutory maternity pay

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include the proposed statutory maternity pay rates for 2019/2020.

• Statutory adoption pay

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include the proposed statutory adoption pay rates for 2019/2020.