The Carers Leave Regulations 2024
These new regulations, effective from 6 April 2024, are designed to assist employees in balancing their professional and personal obligations by granting them the right to take up to one week of unpaid leave in any 12-month period to provide or arrange care for dependants with long-term care needs and not to be dismissed or […]
Carers Leave Act 2023 and the new Regulations
New Regulations brought the Carers Leave Act 2023 into force at the beginning of December, however further Regulations are required to set out further detail of this right for employees and how employers should manage it. These are currently in draft, however it has been confirmed that they will come into force on 6 April […]
Statutory Leave for Carers Proposal
Proposed legislation could benefit more than two million employees who have unpaid caring responsibilities. Unpaid carers could benefit from one week of statutory unpaid leave under a proposal expected to be introduced as a Private Members Bill to Parliament later this year by Liberal Democrat MP, Wendy Chamberlain. She has said she intends to introduce […]