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Big firms refuse to publish their parental leave policies: MNHQ's campaign

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AnnaCMumsnet · 05/07/2019 11:37

As you may know, we launched our Publish Parental Leave campaign encouraging companies to publicly state the maternity, paternity and adoption leave and pay that they offer.

We've now researched all of the FTSE 100 companies and just 23 publish their parental leave policies. In many cases it is easier to find out about the Christmas hampers and kickboxing classes they offer than how many weeks pay and leave you would get if you became a parent. How useful Hmm

Many of the FTSE 100 say they offer ‘generous’ policies, but don’t go into any more detail, making it difficult for any one who wants to work for them to make informed decisions about finances and career development.

In a Mumsnet survey, 82% of parents and prospective parents said they are reluctant to ask potential employers about parental leave policies because they worry it would make a job offer less likely.

That's why we're calling on the government to add parental leave and pay policies to gender pay gap reports. How do your companies measure up?

AnnaCMumsnet · 05/07/2019 12:08

@frazzledasarock can you find out the policies before you get the staff handbook, so before you start working at your company? We're encouraging employers to make the information available before you are a fully signed up employee so you can make informed choices about whether or not you want to work there and so you can plan your financial future if you were to change jobs.

AnnaCMumsnet · 30/08/2019 10:29

Hi, MNHQ here

We wanted to update you on our Publish Parental leave campaign. We've now written to all 77 FTSE100 companies who don't currently publish their parental leave policies publicly.

Eight (including M&S, Barratt Homes, National Grid and Sainsbury's) have said they'll actively review their policies, and two (ITV and LandSec) have committed to publishing in the near future.

This is a really fab result from just one set of emails (don't worry, we're going to be following up with those who've been non-committal too...).

We've also been tweeting them too so do follow us on @MumsnetTowers if you'd like.

And, if your companies don't currently publish their parental leave policies then you might like to encourage them to do so. You can send them more details about the campaign. It really is a small cost-free change they can make to support working parents and parents-to-be.

Thanks

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