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• Employment regs: what happened to the ones that got away?

  Date:

  20 June 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Keeping on top of employment law developments can feel like a full-time job for HR professionals, but that's just the rules and regulations that get passed. What about those pledges and policies that are still to get off the ground?

• A quarter of new fathers unable to claim statutory paternity pay

  Date:

  15 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  One in four (23%) men who became a father last year were not eligible to receive statutory paternity pay.

• Employers urged to publicise shared parental leave policies

  Date:

  7 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  Organisations with 250 staff or more are being urged to publish their shared parental leave policies on their websites to improve transparency and encourage competition on pay.

• So… can employers enhance maternity pay but not shared parental pay?

  Date:

  6 June 2018

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  Recent tribunal decisions have provided some guidance on the legalities of offering enhanced maternity but not enhanced shared parental pay. But that does not mean employers avoid the risk of discrimination completely. Elizabeth Marshall and George Fellows explain.

• Letter offering a suitable alternative vacancy to an employee who is made redundant while on shared parental leave

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.

• Letter offering a suitable alternative vacancy to an employee who is made redundant while on maternity leave

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.

• Letter offering a suitable alternative vacancy to an employee who is made redundant while on adoption leave

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.

• Ordinary parental leave

  Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• How to manage an employee who is absent due to sickness during pregnancy

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Shared parental pay: Tribunal should rehear indirect sex discrimination claim, rules EAT

  Date:

  3 May 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police and another, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) remitted to a fresh tribunal the issue of whether or not a police force's policy of giving a period of full pay to mothers on maternity leave, but paying only statutory shared parental pay to partners, is indirectly discriminatory.