working parents

[matron 22]

Does anyone know if a company should have a policy for working parents eg are parents supposed to be allowed so many days off if their child is ill
Any advice on this will be much appreciated

[factor-fiction]

Are you asking about paid leave or unpaid leave?

[hc4361]

http://www.direct.gov...dholidays/dg_10026555

[matron 22]

Staff feel they are entitled to take paid time off if their child is sick and i cant seem to find the relevant answers anywhere.

[ubasses]

A lot of Companies will do better than the basic Government entitlement, you will need to check your contract, or have a chat with your boss.

[factor-fiction]

I doubt there is any such entitlement. The entitlement is to unpaid emergency leave, although some employers may have a policy of paying. If it's taken as a holiday, of course, it can be paid

[woofgang]

if the staff feel that they are entitled then ask them where it says so...They are the ones making the claim. (I am an ex NHS clinician and manager)

[joko]

why should they be entitled to it? that you have a child is not their problem, they employ you to do a job.

many are amenable but you cant start just demanding days off and expect payment

[boxtops]

I'm in the NHS and we have an emergency leave policy - you can have a small number of days off each year at short notice for contingencies like this. It is at manager's discretion though.If it happens too often it would have to be unpaid leave, or annual leave.

[wolf63]

I am an ex-civil servant and we were allowed emergency leave to cover various unexpected happenings.

If a child was ill the worker would perhaps get one day off to allow them to arrange childcare for the child for any following period that it would be required for. If all else failed it would be, as factor says, paid or unpaid leave.

[Jeza]

When I was a young mum you got nothing. You chose to either have a job or have children. No maternity leave. I think in today's world employers have too much against them, Is it any wonder they are moving out of the UK to go to India ,China ETC.

[boxtops]

No child benefit for the first child, either, jeza.

[Jeza]

Remember it well boxy. When I eventually got it it was £1. Without wishing to fall out with anyone, if I was an employer I would not employ a woman of child bearing age. I know you can't give that as a reason but I would think of something.

[boxtops]

No way round it any more, jeza - any more than you can't employ someone who's "too old" (and a good job too, IMO, otherwise I'd have been retired by now).

[Jeza]

You can always find a reason to give the job to someone else boxy.

[wolf63]

:-)



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrkThaBWa5c&list=PL92459CC69113F7E2&index=54&feature=plpp_video

[wolf63]

Sorry - wrong thread!

[boxtops]

If I wanted to, jeza - I love my job and I'm good at it, I'll keep it as long as I'm fit to do it!