In 2019, Kizzy Gardiner made history when she was hired to stand in for MP Stella Creasy while she was on maternity leave. Her time ... situations like arranging cover for a constituency office ...

even if their pay while on maternity leave is lower. This requirement applies if someone is entitled to Statutory Maternity Pay, Maternity Allowance or has an enhanced contractual maternity pay ...

She said: "There was a time when there wasn't any maternity ... opposition, people only listen briefly to you anyway." Harriet Marsden is a writer for The Week, mostly covering UK and global ...

If you’ve ever been on maternity leave, you’ll know that before heading off, it’s often a mad dash to make sure everything’s in hand. But one tiny loophole could mean your employer actually owes you ...

Under redundancy laws in the UK, pregnant employees, as well as those on maternity leave, adoption leave or shared parental leave must be offered a suitable alternative vacancy, if there is one.

So, when you throw in the thought that someone else ... explaining that maternity leave “isn’t a vacation”. A clever idea, yet one which has yet to catch on in the UK. Hopefully, with ...

‘In the UK, workplace pension rules mean that while an employee is on maternity leave, their employer must keep making pension contributions as if they were still earning their full salary ...