Proposals are to be launched in May this year as an extension of Shared Parental Leave (SPL), the Chancellor announced in the Budget.
SPL came into force 5 April 2015, which allows the parents of babies which were due on or after 5 April, to cut short their maternity leave and allow their partner to share the leave with them.
At the moment under the SPL legislation, only the mother’s partner are entitled to share the leave.
However, it’s been announced that plans are in place, to extend this from 2018, and allow one nominated working grandparent share the leave with them.
Osborne believes that it will allow families to keep childcare costs down, as grandparents typically hold a central role when it comes down to caring for grandchildren. Sounds pretty good?
There are some worries to this of course, it’s worried that employers are likely to become more concerned on the complexity to the SPL rules which already makes employees feel put off using this method of leave.
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