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Enhanced Paternity leave

Posted by Sandra Wood on January 13, 2015 at 2:57pm

Does anyone have experience of an enhanced paternity leave package? Up until now we have only had one new father in the company and we gave him a week at full pay. However as our company grows we are likely to have more employees becoming fathers and want to put a policy in place. If we make this sort of enhancement for fathers, should we enhance maternity leave too to avoid discrimination?

Not yet sure what difference the Shared Parental leave arrangements are likely to make to us, or how an enhanced paternity package would fit with this.

Any comments and suggestions much appreciated.

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Mike Collins March 25, 2015 at 9:34am

Hi Sandra,

The CIPD have just shared this article which might be of interest

Does anyone understand Shared Parental Leave
Sandra Wood February 9, 2015 at 2:57pm

Thanks everyone for your comments, all very helpful and hopefully we will come to a decision this week on what we are going to offer.
Carol Entwistle February 8, 2015 at 4:46pm

I recently attended a workshop by EEF on shared parental leave and I would suggest that before you consider whether to enhance either paternity leave or maternity leave you consider the implications of shared parental leave. Then if you plan to enhance then you enhance them all at the same time, or not. Depending on the size of your business if you enhance these then it could be very costly. Our company is thinking of reducing the amount of enhanced maternity pay that we pay and make a 'pot of money' available for maternity paternity and shared parental leave, to ensure no discrimination.

Hope this helps?
Mike Collins January 14, 2015 at 9:44am

Hi Sandra

I came across this article about Deloitte, PwC and Shell offering enhanced paternity packages. OK so they are large multinational organisations however you might be able to use this example of find out more about what they are doing here

http://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/benefits/childcare-and-carers/del...

Mike
Debora Figueiredo January 13, 2015 at 3:50pm

Hi Sandra,

Very interesting topic. As an 18 yr old, I don't have experience with enhanced paternity/parental leave packages but I've found some great resources that may help you...

Shared Parental Leave and Pay

Shared Parental Leave - Time it happened or Waste of time?

Hope this helps.

Deb