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Supporting Parents and Carers
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Supporting Parents and Carers

Supporting Parents <br> and Carers Campaign
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.
The last spotlight day was on Wednesday 11 June 2008 where we campaigned for new rights and benefits to help carers either stay in work or be able to access work.

Here's how you can help our campaign

Download the Usdaw reps guide to maternity and parental rights
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!
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 »

Tell us your experiences of being a working parent
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
Ask colleagues, friends and family to sign the Supporting Parents and Carers petition to show their support for our campaign....   read more »

Complete and return the postcard - Earnings Rule leaves Carers in Limbo
Join Usdaw's campaign to remove the Earnings Rule from Carer’s Allowance....   read more »

More ways to help our campaign »

Further Information

Supporting Parents & Carers: Spotlight Day - 20 November 2008
Fair play for working carers was the theme for this year’s spotlight day – part of the union’s award winning Supporting Parents and Carers Campaign....
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Pensions announcement a boost for carers - 24 October 2008
Shopworkers’ union, Usdaw, is welcoming today’s announcement that hundreds of thousands more women will be able to claim the full state pension from 2010....
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Supporting Parents & Carers - 26 September 2008
The Supporting Parents and Carers campaign was taken to 10 Downing Street by John Hannett, carer Sam Seghdi and working mum Maria Luff when they presented a 50,000 signature petition calling for improved rights for working parents and carers....
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Time off for dependants explained - 18 August 2008
Sometimes we need time off work to deal with an accident or other problem at home involving a person we care for. All carers and parents are entitled to unpaid time off work to deal with family emergencies such as a child being injured at school. The leave is called Time off for Dependants. ...
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Following the campaign trail to Downing Street and the BBC - 18 August 2008
This year has been a busy year for Usdaw’s Supporting Parents & Carers campaign writes equalities officer Ruth Cross. ...
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