WORKING
PARENTS
The
Government is committed to helping working parents in ways that enhance business
efficiency. New laws introduced on 6 April 2003 provide parents with more opportunities than ever
before to balance their work and childcare responsibilities to the benefit of
employers, employees and their children.
On 5 April 2004 the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry announced that the
Government is opening a debate with parents and employers to hear directly from
them about their experience of balancing work and family life.
Click here
for the Secretary of State's speech. More information is available on the
Working Parents Hot Topics page.
 IF YOU
ARE AN EMPLOYER CLICK HERE
TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE BUSINESS INFORMATION PAGE.
NEW - From 4 April 2004, the standard rate of SMP, SAP and SPP increase
from £100 per week to £102.80 per week.
The links
below provide information on the support available to working parents:
For working parents HOT TOPICS
please click here.
You can get online help from:
TIGER – interactive
guidance on working parents’ employment rights
For
further advice on any of the above rights, call the Acas national
helpline on 08457 47 47 47
Information
on maternity and paternity leave and pay and the right to request flexible
working is also available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati,
Hindi, Punjabi, Somali, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh.
Information on the
Government's strategy to help working parents and monitoring of the new laws is
available here.
The Government is planning to make some technical amendments to fine tune the
way the paternity and adoption leave and pay schemes work. Draft regulations
will be available shortly.
The history
page charts the development of the Government’s parenting rights and
has previous publications available for download.
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