Ahead of the recent announcement that new statutory rules will come into force in April 2015 allowing parents to share their maternity and paternity leave, Julian Cox, Partner and Employment lawyer at Fletcher Day breaks down what working mothers and fathers-to-be, and their employers, can expect.
The government’s plans to let parents share leave for a year after a child is born is intended to challenge old-fashioned gender based assumptions that the mother is the one that ought to stay at home following the birth of a child to look after it. But there is no doubt that the new rules…
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