Shared parental leave and shared parental pay

New and updated

• Podcast: Key employment cases for 2019

  Date:

  11 January 2019

  Type:

  Audio and video

  Which employment cases will have the biggest impact on HR in 2019? We assess the likely impact on employers of upcoming cases on: the national minimum wage, shared parental leave, holiday pay, restrictive covenants, collective bargaining, covert CCTV, and employment status.

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

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Updated to reflect that the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2019 has been finalised.

• Two thirds of dads take six months' shared parental leave at Aviva

  Date:

  20 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  Enhancing shared parental pay to the same level as maternity pay has been shown to help lead to a dramatically higher take-up of shared parental leave among men at the UK's largest insurance firm.

• 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 include information on the Government's proposals to extend redundancy protection for employees after shared parental leave.

• 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.

• Sex discrimination: No direct discrimination when only statutory minimum paid to those on shared parental leave

  Date:

  30 April 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Capita Customer Management Ltd v Ali [2018] IRLR 586 EAT, the EAT held that there was no direct sex discrimination when an employer offered 14 weeks of enhanced maternity pay, but paid only the statutory minimum to employees taking shared parental leave.

• Shared parental pay: EAT overturns finding of sex discrimination

  Date:

  12 April 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Capita Customer Management Ltd v Ali and another, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that the failure to pay a father shared parental pay at the same rate as an employee on maternity leave is not sex discrimination.

• Letter confirming a continuous period of shared parental leave

  Type:

  Policies and documents

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