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Research: Parental Leave Policy & Reward Benchmark 2019

This report from My Family Care gives a sense of what average, good and excellent now look like, in terms of support for new working parents. It provides details on the current policies and benefits for maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave at more than 250 UK businesses.

Research: Parental Leave Policy & Reward Benchmark 2019 1

Key findings

  • More than three quarters of respondents offer enhanced maternity/adoption/surrogacy pay, while two thirds enhance paternity pay.
  • 40% of respondents enhance their shared parental pay in some way.
  • The best total package reported enables parents of any gender and any parenting role to take 26 weeks’ fully paid leave followed (for maternity/adoption or shared parental leave) with 13 weeks statutory pay as applicable.
  • Employers are using other ways to retain new parents, including: phased returns, establishing a parents’ network, providing advice and/or support in finding childcare, providing coaching, offer backup care for when usual care solutions fail, and onsite childcare support.