Law firm Thorntons has introduced new family-friendly policies, including trebling paid maternity leave and upping paternity leave to 12 weeks.
The statutory rates for the UK's National Living Wage, national minimum wage, maternity, paternity, adoption and sick pay have all increased this month - here's what HR needs to know.
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.
The BBC has announced that its employees will receive additional maternity or paternity pay if their baby is born prematurely
