Many family-friendly employment policies are in place to help your employees manage their work and home life, such as childcare. Such policies can alleviate your employees’ stress about balancing the two, improving employee morale. Most significantly, the law requires businesses to have family-friendly policies. Hence, you must be aware of the policies and enforce them. Otherwise, you could face an employment claim in an employment tribunal. This article will explain to you, as an employer, some of the points you need to know about family-friendly policies in England. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an employer, you should have family-friendly policies covering maternity, paternity and adoption rights for your employees. The law provides relevant employees with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shared parental leave is also a part of our family-friendly policies. It is where your employee decides to end their 52 weeks of maternity leave early and share this with their partner. Accordingly, either partner can flexibly use the leave as shared parental leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
As an employer, you can offer more than your employee\u2019s minimum entitlements,\u00a0such as a higher rate of maternity pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an employer, you should consider offering flexible working arrangements<\/a> to your employees. Flexible working includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n An employee is legally entitled to make a flexible work request where they are employed for at least 26 continuous weeks and have not made a request for flexible work in the previous 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n If your employee has worked for you for at least 26 continuous weeks, they may be legally entitled to request a form of flexible working. You have a legal obligation to consider a flexible work request within three months of receiving the request. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Continue reading this article below the form\n <\/i>\n<\/a>\n