Supporting Parents and Carers

Supporting Parents and Carers Campaign

Usdaw's Supporting Parents and Carers Campaign seeks to improve the lives of workers with either parental or caring responsibilities. Around 75% of Usdaw members are either parents or carers (or both) and they tell us loud and clear that they need the Union to campaign for them.

The campaign aims to make gains through our negotiations with companies and to campaign with Government for more rights. Since it was launched in 2004 the campaign has delivered:

• Negotiated improvements in the terms and conditions for more than two-thirds of our members.
• New rights for parents, like extended paid maternity leave and adoptive leave.
• New rights for carers, like the right to request flexible working and an increase in the earnings threshold for Carers Allowance.

Here's how you can help our campaign

Download the Usdaw reps guide to maternity and parental rights 27 May 2008
The booklet Maternity and parental rights - a guide for Usdaw reps is designed to help union representatives assist and represent pregnant women and new mothers at work....   read more »

Carers Spotlight Day Get involved! 16 May 2008
This year is an important one for working carers who we know often struggle to make their voices heard, writes equalities officer Jo Bird....   read more »

Complete the Carers Spotlight Day Survey 13 May 2008
Usdaw’s Supporting Carers' Spotlight Day is a great opportunity to raise awareness of existing rights and to press for further improvements, particularly in respect of extending the right to request flexible working to parents of older children....   read more »

Tell us your experiences of being a working parent 30 January 2008
We need to submit as much evidence as possible from our members to the Government’s review of flexible working and we need your help. The more evidence we can give, the more chance we have of extending the right to as many parents as possible....   read more »

Collect signatures on the Supporting Parents and Carers petition 05 June 2007
Ask colleagues, friends and family to sign the Supporting Parents and Carers petition to show their support for our campaign....   read more »

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