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

Although it is positive that employers are already introducing more generous parental leave policies, there needs to be an accompanying shift in employers’ cultures to dismantle the bias that...

Fewer than 2% of new fathers benefitted from shared parental leave since the scheme was introduced 10 years ago today (2 December), according to the campaign group The Dad Shift.

Campaigners have strapped lifesized doll babies in slings to statues of men in central London, in a stunt aimed at lobbying the UK government to improve its parental leave offering.

The UK government recently announced it had no plans to increase paternity leave and pay.

In July, Royal Mail settled industrial relations disputes, the government announced plans for more flexible paternity leave, a workplace bullying bill was proposed and McDonalds came under fire for...

Investors in People’s Make Work Better conference yesterday (20 September) was headlined by the serial investor and Diary of a CEO podcaster, Steven Bartlett and included insight from British Airways...

Charity Working Families has released its annual list of top family-friendly employers in the UK for 2023.

The government’s reforms to paternity leave and pay have been criticised as inadequate and a missed opportunity to reduce gender inequality by charities and experts.

Government has announced it will amend legislation to give new parents more flexibility on when and how they take paternity leave, in response to a public consultation on parental leave and pay.

Paternity leave is not taken at all by 21% of fathers, and financial worries are the biggest reason for this (27%).

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