Team Blitz India
LONDON: Newly-introduced legislations, including three Governmentbacked cross-party Acts, which came into force on April 6, will benefit families with new employment protections, including redundancy protections for pregnant women and new parents and a new leave entitlement for unpaid carers.
In addition, parents and carers have been granted new and improved rights at work, covering leave entitlements and redundancy rules. There will be new flexible paternity leave and pay for parents of babies due on or after the laws took effect.
Against a backdrop of skills and labour shortages, these measures will help businesses to attract and retain talented staff. The measures also support groups more likely to fall out of the workforce, such as parents and disabled people, enabling them to thrive in the workplace.
This comes alongside measures to make work pay – cutting taxes by £900 a year for the average worker, increasing the National Living Wage from £10.42 an hour to £11.44, and introducing free childcare for working parents worth £6,900 a year.
Pregnant women and new parents will now receive special treatment in a redundancy situation, as a suite of new laws are introduced – delivering the Government’s plan to support families and back hardworking Brits.
The new laws will protect workers by strengthening existing redundancy protections to cover pregnancy and a period of time after parents return to work. The Government-backed package of Acts will also boost support to vulnerable workers offering greater flexibility and confidence to workers and businesses – to help galvanise productivity, help grow the economy and tackle inactivity.
