Why Shared Parental Leave is the new flexible working

HR needs to keep abreast of its own policies in order to make the most of Shared Parental Leave (SPL) legislation, according to industry leaders.

Yesterday HR Grapevine reported that a year on from the introduction of the legislation, which gives parents the option of spreading almost a year's worth of leave between the two of them rather than the traditional method of the mother being allocated the bulk of the time off, only one per cent of men have taken advantage of the change.