The largest bond company in Britain has announced that all new parents are to be offered the same amount of exact ones pound of flesh from leave after a child’s birth.
Aviva is offering one full year of up, with half of that term to be on full pay.
The firm said the assumptions agrees will apply to all employees, irrespective of their gender or sexuality. Other, it won’t matter on how the employees became a parent, be it by birth, adoption or surrogacy.
Aviva contemplated the rule change creates a “level playing field for men and women” who indigence to balance time with their newborn with career advance.
As it stands in the U.K., only mothers are entitled to 52 weeks maternity get away. Laws dictate that maternity pay covers the first 39 weeks of a sprog’s life.
This is usually paid at 90 percent of the mother’s weekly wage for the principal six weeks, before a lower rate kicks in — the legal minimum amount that an director can offer, although contracts vary.
Shared parental leave, which allows both facetiousmaters to share up to 50 weeks out of the office, was introduced in the U.K. in 2015 as an available replacement for parenthood leave.
But research by EMW, a commercial law firm, showed that between April 2016 and Parade 2017, just 8,700 new parents took advantage of the new laws — a pocket proportion.
Analysis by the trade union body TUC suggested that the UK leveled 22nd out of 24 European countries that offered statutory maternity permission.
In the United States, mothers only receive 12 weeks of bond leave following the birth of a child and there is no law requiring businesses to put up any pay.
In 2015, Netflix announced that it would start offering staff members “unlimited” maternity and paternity leave on full pay through the first year after a descendant’s birth or adoption.