We support families and carers, ensuring they can balance family and work responsibilities in a way that supports their mental and physical wellbeing. To enable this, we offer a broad and competitive range of family-focused policies which reflect not just our legal obligations and local jurisdictional practices, but also our purpose.
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Family-focused Policies
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Policies
To ensure continuous improvement across our policy offering, we actively listen to colleagues through our colleague experience feedback forums, our employee-led networks, our employee representatives, and regular industry benchmarking. As a result of this engagement and new legislation, neonatal care leave and pay has been introduced to our existing family-friendly policies. The policy supports all eligible employees with more time away from work to help individuals who may need additional support. The policy introduces enhanced pay and leave, from day one, for eligible employees to focus on caring for their family.
Maternity leave
GB & Offshore
- Total Leave: 52 weeks
- Pay: 24 weeks full pay, 15 weeks statutory pay only.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Maternity leave
NI
- Total Leave: 52 weeks
- Pay: 26 weeks full pay, 13 weeks statutory pay only.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Maternity leave
ROI
- Total Leave: 42 weeks
- Pay: 27 weeks full pay (less maternity state benefit)
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Partner leave
GB, Offshore, NI and ROI
- Alignment to each jurisdictions maternity offering providing for equal parent leave across GB, Offshore, NI and ROI (see maternity entries).
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Neonatal care leave
GB, Offshore, NI & ROI
- Total leave: Up to 12 weeks
- Pay: Full pay
- No continuous service required, it’s a Day 1 provision.
Adoption leave (including surrogacy)
GB & Offshore
- Total Leave: 52 weeks
- Pay: 24 weeks full pay, 15 weeks statutory pay only.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Adoption leave (including surrogacy)
NI
- Total Leave: 52 weeks
- Pay: 26 weeks full pay, 13 weeks statutory pay.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Adoption leave (including surrogacy)
ROI
- Total Leave: 42 weeks
- Pay: 27 weeks full pay (less maternity state benefit), 15 weeks unpaid.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Shared parental leave
GB, Offshore & NI
- Total Leave: 50 weeks
- Pay: 22 weeks (immediately following the birth) full pay shared between both parents.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Parental leave
GB, Offshore and NI
- Total leave: 18 weeks per child (up to the age of 18).
- Pay: Unpaid
- 4 weeks can be taken per annum, per child. Leave must be taken in 1 week blocks.
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Parental leave
ROI
There are 2 types of leave in ROI: (1) Parental Leave and (2) Parents Leave.
(1) Parental Leave: where total leave is 26 weeks up to the age of 12. Can be taken in one continuous 26 week block or in blocks of at least 6 weeks.
Parental leave pay: Unpaid
(2) Parents leave: 7 weeks during first 2 years. Taken in 1 week blocks.
Parents leave pay: Unpaid
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Carers leave
GB, Offshore and NI
- Total leave: 18 weeks.
- Pay: Unpaid
- Max 4 weeks leave per annum, can be taken in half day blocks of absence
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Carers leave
ROI
- Total leave: Between 13 and 104 weeks
- Pay: Unpaid
- Taken in either one continuous block of 104 weeks or a minimum of 13 weeks in one period.
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Foster leave
GB & Offshore
- Total leave: 5 days for long term foster arrangements.
- Pay: Full pay
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Bereavement Leave
GB, Offshore, NI & ROI
- Total Leave: A minimum of 2 weeks, which can be taken within a 56 week period following the death.
- Pay: Full pay
- Can be taken flexibly in days or blocks of a week.
Flexible working
GB, Offshore, NI & ROI
- No continuous service required, it’s a Day 1 provision.
- Two formal requests per annum. Unlimited informal short term requests per annum.
Maternity leave
GB & Offshore
- Total Leave: 52 weeks
- Pay: 24 weeks full pay, 15 weeks statutory pay only.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Maternity leave
NI
- Total Leave: 52 weeks
- Pay: 26 weeks full pay, 13 weeks statutory pay only.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Maternity leave
ROI
- Total Leave: 42 weeks
- Pay: 27 weeks full pay (less maternity state benefit)
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
Information Message
Partner leave
GB, Offshore, NI and ROI
- Alignment to each jurisdictions maternity offering providing for equal parent leave across GB, Offshore, NI and ROI (see maternity entries).
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Adoption leave (including surrogacy)
GB & Offshore
- Total Leave: 52 weeks
- Pay: 24 weeks full pay, 15 weeks statutory pay only.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
Information Message
Adoption leave (including surrogacy)
NI
- Total Leave: 52 weeks
- Pay: 26 weeks full pay, 13 weeks statutory pay.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Adoption leave (including surrogacy)
ROI
- Total Leave: 42 weeks
- Pay: 27 weeks full pay (less maternity state benefit), 15 weeks unpaid.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Shared parental leave
GB, Offshore & NI
- Total Leave: 50 weeks
- Pay: 22 weeks (immediately following the birth) full pay shared between both parents.
- Phaseback: up to 12 weeks full pay regardless of hours worked during the gradual return period.
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Parental leave
GB, Offshore and NI
- Total leave: 18 weeks per child (up to the age of 18)
- Pay: Unpaid
- 4 weeks can be taken per annum, per child. Leave must be taken in 1 week blocks.
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Parental leave
ROI
There are 2 types of leave in ROI: (1) Parental Leave and (2) Parents Leave.
(1) Parental Leave: where total leave is 26 weeks up to the age of 12. Can be taken in one continuous 26 week block or in blocks of at least 6 weeks.
Parental leave pay: Unpaid
(2) Parents leave: 7 weeks during first 2 years. Taken in 1 week blocks.
Parents leave pay: Unpaid
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Carers leave
GB, Offshore and NI
- Total leave: 18 weeks.
- Pay: Unpaid
- Max 4 weeks leave per annum, can be taken in half day blocks of absence
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Carers leave
ROI
- Total leave: Between 13 and 104 weeks
- Pay: Unpaid
- Taken in either one continuous block of 104 weeks or a minimum of 13 weeks in one period.
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Foster leave
GB & Offshore
- Total leave: 5 days for long term foster arrangements.
- Pay: Full pay
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Flexible working
GB, Offshore, NI & ROI
- No continuous service required, it’s a Day 1 provision.
- Two formal requests per annum. Unlimited informal short term requests per annum.
Bereavement Leave
GB, Offshore, NI & ROI
- Total Leave: A minimum of 2 weeks, which can be taken within a 56 week period following the death.
- Pay: Full pay
- Can be taken flexibly in days or blocks of a week.
Neonatal care leave
GB, Offshore, NI & ROI
- Total leave: Up to 12 weeks
- Pay: Full pay
- No continuous service required, it’s a Day 1 provision.