Elizabeth Finn Homes – with the support of its charity owners Turn2us – has launched a new parental leave pay policy.
The policy aims to provide all employees who become parents the opportunity to take time to raise their child during his or her first year, or in the case of adoption, the first year of an employee becoming a parent.
The new Elizabeth Finn Homes Family Leave Policy outlines the rights and entitlements of employees when welcoming a new child into their lives, setting out both basic and enhanced entitlements relating to new and expectant birth parents at work, birth parent leave, shared parental leave, adoption leave, co-parent leave, parental leave, and parental bereavement leave.
CEO Dr Olivia Curno said: “I am utterly delighted to announce the launch of our new and greatly enhanced Family Leave Policy. We believe we have developed one of the most progressive, generous and family-centred approaches in the care sector. We continuously strive to be a caring, supportive employer and by offering these enhanced benefits, we set an example we hope other providers will follow.
“The margins in care are incredibly tight. It's a chronically underfunded sector trying to meet ever mounting needs and costs but short-changing new parents is a false economy. Comparing care sector spending on agency staff and recruitment, excellent family policies might be just the investment we should be making to keep social care workers – 81 per cent of whom are women - healthy, happy and retained by our sector.”
