Family-friendly rights and support

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  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus (COVID-19): Letter to arrange discussion with pregnant employee about their return to work

  Updated to reflect the Government's announcement that employees in England should work from home if they can.

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  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus (COVID-19): Letter setting out adjustments for pregnant employee who is returning to work

  Updated to reflect the Government's announcement that employees in England should work from home if they can.

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  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus (COVID-19): Letter to move pregnant employee to suitable alternative work

  Updated with information on the Government's plan to give employers in England more discretion from 1 August 2020 as to whether or not employees attend work or work from home.

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  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus (COVID-19): Letter suspending pregnant employee on health and safety grounds

  Updated to reflect the Government's announcement that employees in England should work from home if they can.

• Date:

  7 September 2020

  Type:

  News

  Take-up of shared parental leave still "exceptionally low"

  Although the use of shared parental leave increased by 23 percentage points last year, only 13,100 couples applied to use the scheme last year.

• Date:

  19 August 2020

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  Editor's choice

  New Calculators tool

  XpertHR has six calculators to help HR professionals calculate statutory and enhanced redundancy pay, and entitlements around statutory maternity leave and pay. These can now be found in our new Calculators tool.

• Date:

  12 August 2020

  Type:

  News

  Ensure women do not lose out on maternity pay, say Labour

  The Labour party has called for the government to take urgent action to ensure that those who have been pregnant during the pandemic do not have their maternity pay wrongly docked.

• Date:

  11 August 2020

  Type:

  News

  More support for carers needed to keep staff in work

  Research by Carers UK has shown that employers are seeing the health, wellbeing and productivity of their workforces adversely impacted by a shortage of support from social care services.

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  Calculators

  Maternity notification deadline calculator

  An up-to-date, accurate maternity dates calculator. Use this calculator to calculate by when a pregnant employee must provide their official maternity notification and the earliest they can start their maternity leave.

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  Calculators

  Additional maternity leave end date calculator

  An up-to-date, accurate additional maternity leave end date calculator. Use this calculator to calculate when an employee's maternity leave will end if she takes all her statutory maternity leave entitlement.