A groom has won a maternity discrimination suit against her employer, an Epsom Derby-winning stables, after one of her managers refused to dismount during a meeting about her return to work.

According to the World Health Organisation, almost one in five women will experience a mental health condition during pregnancy or in the year after the birth of their children.  

The government has thrown its support behind new laws designed to help both pregnant workers and unpaid carers in the UK.

Only a quarter (25%) of employees who experienced pregnancy or baby loss in the past five years received paid compassionate leave from their employer, according to research from the CIPD.

Virgin Media O2 has rolled out enhanced employee wellbeing initiatives, becoming one of the first UK companies to offer both paid neonatal and paid carer's leave to workers.

Nearly half of employers (46%) would welcome extensions to statutory paternity leave and pay, according to research from the CIPD.

For many, becoming a parent fundamentally alters how people view and what they expect from their workplace.

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.

UK employers are severely lacking when it comes to paternity leave and support for working fathers.

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.