A former recruiter has won £25,000 after her employer failed to provide return-to-work accommodations after her maternity leave, a tribunal has heard.

A former Citibank employee has reportedly accepted £215,000 to settle her discrimination claim, after being overlooked for promotion while on maternity leave.

Women are increasingly being pushed out of their jobs when pregnant, on, or returning from, maternity leave, new research has revealed.

Law firm Thorntons has introduced new family-friendly policies, including trebling paid maternity leave and upping paternity leave to 12 weeks.

A banker whose responsibilities were eroded while on maternity leave has won her seven-year legal battle against Commerzbank.

A woman made redundant two months before she was due to go on maternity leave has won £130,000 from an employment tribunal.

The government's proposed Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill has undergone a second reading in parliament.

Low paternity pay meant just a third of eligible new fathers took paternity leave in the last year.

Adoption and surrogacy rates in the UK are on the rise – in the year ending March 2020, there were 3,440 adoptions and 413 parental orders following a surrogacy arrangement.

The UK's childcare costs are the highest in the developed world, yet maternity pay has dipped over the last 12 years.

News that a senior TikTok boss has reportedly told London staff he doesn't think companies should offer paid maternity leave has been universally condemned as out of touch and even “dangerous.”

UK employers are advertising pensions, sick pay and training as job perks despite them being obliged to offer them by law.