Good Work Plan: Proposals to support families

Parental leave and pay

This section sets out high level options for reforming existing entitlements which could help parents to balance the gender division of parental leave.

This part of the consultation closed on 29 November 2019.

Neonatal leave and pay

This section looks at proposals for a new leave and pay entitlement for parents of babies that require neonatal care after birth.

This part of the consultation closed on 11 October 2019.

Transparency of flexible working and family related leave and pay policies

This section looks at whether employers should have a duty to consider if a job can be done flexibly and make that clear when advertising a role. It also considers options for requiring large employers (those with 250 or more employees) to publish their family related leave and pay and flexible working policies.

This part of the consultation closed on 11 October 2019.