The final report of the Keep Britain Working review, carried out by Sir Charlie Mayfield, has been published. The report sets out recommendations for the Government, aimed at “turning the tide” on ill-health and disability in the workplace, including addressing mental health at work, retention of older people in work and improving participation and retention of disabled people in work.
The House of Lords’ Home-based Working Committee’s report, Is Working from Home Working?, identifies how remote working can enable people to work who might not otherwise be able to do so, due to a disability or sickness and support the Government’s plans to get back people back to work.
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The sudden announcement of a general election to be held on 4 July left only a few days before Parliament closed down and gave the Government the problem of which items of legislation to quickly push through the adoption process.
One that was saved was the Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Act 2024 which has now been published.
Extending to England and Wales and Scotland, it will come into force when the relevant Secretary of State decides to introduce the necessary regulations.
Under the law as it currently stands, paternity leave only lasts for a maximum of two weeks and bereaved partners can only take statutory paternity leave if they satisfy minimum service requirements.
The new Act amends the Employment Rights Act 1996 after a Labour MP, Chris Elmore, put forward a Private Members’ Bill when he was approached by Aaron Horsey, from Nottingham, who found that he did not qualify for shared parental leave when his wife, Bernadette, died while giving birth to their son.
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He had recently changed jobs and had not been working for the new company for the required length of time.
Under the Act, which was passed with cross-party support, bereaved fathers or non-birthing partners will automatically get the right to day-one paternity leave if the mother, or a person with whom a child is placed or expected to be placed for adoption, dies.
The condition preventing bereaved partners who have already taken shared parental leave from taking paternity leave is removed and, where both the mother and child die, bereaved partners will still be able to take leave.
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