Family-friendly rights and support

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• Date:

  22 February 2021

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  Take part in our maternity, paternity and parental leave and pay survey

  Take part in XpertHR's research to find out how your organisation's approach to enhancing pay for maternity, paternity and shared parental leave compares.

• Date:

  1 February 2021

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Employment law changes: Seven major proposals that may progress in 2021

  Many proposed employment law changes that the Government has put forward in the last few years have stalled, mainly as a result of the focus on Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic. Which proposals could be resurrected in 2021 and what would they mean for employers?

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Statutory maternity pay and other family-related statutory pay rates increase

  The rates of statutory maternity pay, statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay, statutory shared parental pay and statutory parental bereavement pay increase.

• Date:

  9 December 2020

  Type:

  News

  April 2021 statutory maternity, paternity and sick pay rates published

  The government has published the proposed statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay, parental bereavement pay and sick pay from April 2021.

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Shared parental pay

  Updated to include the proposed rate of statutory shared parental pay for 2021/22.

• Type:

  Statutory rates

  Statutory shared parental pay

  Updated to include the proposed statutory shared parental pay rates for 2021/2022.

• Type:

  Statutory rates

  Maternity allowance

  Updated to include the proposed maternity allowance rates for 2021/2022.

• Type:

  Statutory rates

  Statutory maternity pay

  Updated to include the proposed statutory maternity pay rates for 2021/2022.

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Adoption pay

  Updated to include the proposed rate of statutory adoption pay for 2021/22.

• Type:

  Statutory rates

  Statutory adoption pay

  Updated to include the proposed statutory adoption pay rates for 2021/2022.