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We’ve published a briefing on Self-employed #paternity leave (or lack of) ahead of tomorrow’s #PaternityLeave debate secured by @ShaunDaviesMP
Please drop us a line if you need more info:
parentalpayequality.org.uk/s…
8 years since starting a campaign on self-employed parental leave, things are shifting. Together with PregnantThenScrewed @dadshiftuk @dopeblackdads we spoke to @jreynoldsMP about Labour’s review of parental leave, launched today. Self-employed parents are included. Thank you!
Great news! Thanks for all your work in this @stellacreasy now time for self-employed community & unions to gather evidence (we know it’s out there) for giving parental leave to *all* dads, non birthing parents and adopters. Not just those who are employed.
Paid and protected leave for all parents would close the gender pay gap, support dad’s mental health and probably save a lot of relationships. The government now committed to producing plans by June next year- Help keep the pressure up to make this happen! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdesY9gE/
Welcome news for employed parents, however self-employed parents need to just crack on and keep working when they suffer a devastating loss, or go through the traumatic process of applying for maternity allowance, as if they were expecting a healthy baby. Much work still to do.
Looking forward to watching this - hope #SelfEmployed parents get a mention!
Check out our submission here:
committees.parliament.uk/wri…
🗓️ Watch our hearing on shared parental leave at 2.20pm on Wednesday 26 February with:
@dadshiftuk | @pregnantscrewed | @CapstickKarla | @uniofeastanglia | @jrf_uk | @_EqualParenting | @fawcettsociety
This is great news, but no help to self-employed families who are stuck with inflexible Maternity Allowance, and no paternity leave no matter the circumstances of their baby’s birth. Let’s hope Labour’s review of parental leave addresses this unfair situation.
Huge congrats to @Joeli_Brearley of @PregnantScrewed and @MFFonline_ on your New Years Honours for all the amazing advocacy you do for parents! 👏👏👏
ParentalPayEquality retweeted
Significant that paternity pay was a key demand for these workers - shows that UK’s threadbare statutory minimum urgently needs improving @dadshiftuk
🚨 NEW: Tube drivers have been offered the following deal by TFL to get them to call off strikes:
- Four-day week
- 4.5% pay rise
- Paid meal breaks
- 2.5 hours a week less work
- 35-hour working week
- Extra week's paid paternity leave
[@RossLydall]
Significant that paternity pay was a key demand for these workers - shows that UK’s threadbare statutory minimum urgently needs improving @dadshiftuk
🚨 NEW: Tube drivers have been offered the following deal by TFL to get them to call off strikes:
- Four-day week
- 4.5% pay rise
- Paid meal breaks
- 2.5 hours a week less work
- 35-hour working week
- Extra week's paid paternity leave
[@RossLydall]
We’re looking forward to watching this debate tomorrow - please don’t forget about self-employed dads who currently get *zero* days paternity leave.
🚨There's a parliament debate on paternity leave tomorrow.
Can you email your MP to ask them to speak at the debate and raise the profile of paternity leave ? We've made an online tool that takes 30 seconds to use.
thedadshift.good.do/paternit…
Excited about government employment rights bill today. The devil is in the detail - not clear that self-employed parents (as opposed to workers) will qualify for day one rights for paternity, and shared parental pay. Scope of parental leave review must include *all* parents.
And a huge number don’t qualify - including newly employed and self-employed!
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We look forward to working with @AngelaRayner @justinmadders on some of the detail on the incredibly welcome proposals on workers rights, including day one parental leave for all workers!
The King's just announced this Government will be signing the New Deal for Working People into law.
Add your name to celebrate this and show your support for getting this done, whatever the bad bosses have to say:
labourunions.org.uk/supportn…
This is why we have been calling for the government to give freelancers the same parental leave as employees - currently freelance dads have no entitlements. 😢
'I had 4 days off work after my son was born - I was robbed of precious moments'
mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-…
We love to see it! #Selfieleave
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ParentalPayEquality retweeted
At this year’s Conference, Equity’s Northern Ireland Committee’s motion, proposed by Committee member Marina Hampton on supporting Parental Pay Equality @ShPPEquality = Unanimously Passed! Thank you to all who voted YES and to @EquityDandD for seconding#EquityConference2024
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It’s Black maternal health week! Despite progress, Black women are still four times more likely to die in pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period in the UK (MBRRACE 2023)
Each day has a different theme all under the overarching goal of 'Advancing Black Maternal Health'
One of the biggest issues around UC for us is how Maternity Allowance is treated as unearned income, yet Maternity Pay is treated as earned income. New mums claiming MA are penalised, despite standard rate MA being dependant on earnings, similarly to SMP.
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I found it a problem that I couldn't swap around maternity leave with my husband. If you're employed you can each take chunks of leave (mother three months/father/ two months/ mother four months etc) you can't do this as self-employed.
We’re speaking to DWP on Wednesday to discuss issues #selfemployed people are having applying for #MaternityAllowance.
Do let us know what isn’t working for you - specially around class 2 NIC changes - and we’ll pass it on!
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