Enhanced Maternity Schemes - The Business Case for Extending Family Friendly Support

Introduction

Despite their workers often being on lower incomes, many of the UK’s retailers now offer enhanced maternity pay to their employees. This means that when they choose to take time off to raise a family, they are often better off in comparison to professionals in other sectors.

Consequently, employers, regardless of sector, are starting to feel pressure to offer more than the statutory pay.

Plus, paying the statutory minimum on the basis that most other employers choose to do so does little to tackle the staffing issues that businesses currently face.

A fresh approach is needed and there are many good business reasons to look again at how to approach maternity pay.

This short webinar will discuss the shift in attitude regarding maternity pay and explore the many options that employers have when designing a suitable scheme for their workforce.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• The business reasons for paying enhanced maternity leave
• How maternity pay links to other types of ‘family friendly’ leave and how those schemes might also be impacted
• The range of options available in terms of the rate of pay and number of weeks to offer enhanced pay for
• Some rules of the scheme to protect the employer whilst being fair to employees
• How to introduce a scheme and link this to your other family friendly schemes

This webinar was recorded on 23rd September 2024

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