Retail leads the way on paternity leave as government urged to improve offer
Source: The Guardian ·
M&S and Tesco are among employers offering six weeks, highlighting gap with construction and agriculture“Being able to take six weeks’ paid paternity leave, flexibly, made a huge difference to me and my family, giving me the time to support my partner and settle into being a new parent,” said Marks & Spencer employee Joe Erskine.The food and clothing retailer increased its paternity leave…
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“Being able to take six weeks’ paid paternity leave, flexibly, made a huge difference to me and my family, giving me the time to support my partner and settle into being a new parent,” said Marks & Spencer employee Joe Erskine. The food and clothing retailer increased its paternity leave offering from two to six weeks at full pay in 2024, meaning Erskine benefited from the new policy when his second child was born 17 months ago. M&S and Tesco are among the retailers leading the way in offering enhanced paternity leave to their staff, new research has shown, highlighting the widening gap between the more family-friendly policies offered to new fathers working in the retail sector compared with those in construction, manufacturing and agriculture. Both companies offer six weeks at full pay to employees, far outstripping the statutory two-week minimum paternity leave offer and making them among the most generous of UK blue-chip companies listed on the FTSE 100, according to figures…