Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has suggested maternity pay has "gone too far" and the government needed to interfere less in people's lives. Speaking to Times Radio, Badenoch said statutory ...

Over 2.5 million working women in the private sector are entitled to receive only statutory maternity pay from their employer, compared to just 150,000 in the public sector, according to the latest ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has faced growing pressure from campaign groups, charities, and MPs to align ...

A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) minister has responded to calls to increase the amount of Statutory Maternity Pay ...

Working mothers are being caught up in a “catch 22” situation due to the with soaring cost of childcare and statutory maternity pay falling in real value, according to new analysis by the Trades Union ...

The amount of time off and pay new parents can get after the birth of a child will be looked at in a "landmark" review, the government says. Ministers said they wanted to modernise the system across ...

Planning for the arrival of a baby involves many complex choices. Among these is deciding how long the mother will take off work to recover from childbirth and care for her newborn full-time. For many ...

Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking a cross-section of women how they spend their hard-earned money during a ...

The CIPD calls for an increase in statutory paternity leave to help balance caring responsibilities and provide greater financial support to working parents New data from the CIPD shows that almost ...