Shared parental leave and shared parental pay

New and updated

• Enhanced pay key to shared parental leave take-up

  Date:

  2 June 2016

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Employers that enhance shared parental pay are twice as likely to receive shared parental leave requests as those that offer the statutory rate, according to research released by XpertHR Benchmarking.

• Statutory shared parental leave

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  A type of leave that is available to parents with babies due on or after 5 April 2015, and to adoptive parents of children who are placed for adoption on or after 5 April 2015.

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

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The rate of statutory maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay increases.

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

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter to send to an employee on shared parental leave whose job has been identified as redundant, as soon as a suitable alternative vacancy is available.

• Letter informing an employee who is made redundant while on shared parental leave that no suitable alternative vacancy exists

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter informing an employee who is made redundant while on shared parental leave that no suitable alternative vacancy exists.

• Letter confirming to an employee who is made redundant while on shared parental leave that he or she has accepted a suitable alternative vacancy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter confirming to an employee who is made redundant while on shared parental leave that he or she has accepted a suitable alternative vacancy.

• Letter informing an employee who is made redundant while on shared parental leave of the consequences of turning down a suitable alternative vacancy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter informing an employee who is made redundant while on shared parental leave of the consequences of turning down a suitable alternative vacancy.

• Podcast: Shared parental leave (part 2)

  Date:

  1 May 2015

  Type:

  Audio and video

  In this week's podcast, we are once again joined by special guest Jo Broadbent, who handles your technical questions on dealing with shared parental leave requests and employees' entitlement to shared parental pay.

• Podcast: Shared parental leave (part 1)

  Date:

  24 April 2015

  Type:

  Audio and video

  On this week's XpertHR Weekly, we are joined by special guest Jo Broadbent, who goes back to basics and explains what shared parental leave is, who is entitled to this new right, and how it differs to other types of family-friendly leave and pay.

• Shared parental leave survey 2015: employers concerned about complexity

  Date:

  8 April 2015

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  According to latest XpertHR research, HR supports shared parental leave "in principle", but it is concerned that the new right is complex to administer.