Marianne Schönle

#Employment rights include #ParentalRights so we were delighted to have the opp to attend & contribute to this event with @justinmadders.bsky.social @prospectunion.bsky.social & @cipd.bsky.social

We are the Alliance for Maternity Rights & today we've launched our action plan to Government calling for better support for new mothers & parents maternityaction.org.uk/alliance-mat...
@tuc.org.uk @fbunational.bsky.social @neunion.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social

OUR NEW REPORT PUBLISHED TODAY: the critically low level of maternity pay (£187.18 a week) is pushing pregnant women & new mothers into debt 🧵👇

If we want to close the gender pay gap, now is the time to make sure that flexible working rights have teeth - Maternity Action By Marianne Schönle, Senior Policy Officer, Employment and Social Security, Maternity Action We hear from too many new mothers whose employers deny their request to work flexibly when they return from...

Pleased to share Lord Watson has worked with us & @neunion.bsky.social @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social @fawcettsociety.bsky.social to table an amendment to give flexible working measures in the #employmentrights bill teeth @marianneschonle.bsky.social explains why this is needed here: bit.ly/3S8fe6q

Flexible working isn't working for working mums:
Sarah Russell MP sets the record straight on behalf of us all during the #employment rights bill debate today.

Lovely to welcome Nikki Pound of @tuc.org.uk to our stall at #TUCWomensConference today. If you're here, please come & meet Judith Dennis (left) and @marianneschonle.bsky.social (right), join us to #EndPregnancyPoverty #IWD2025

Getting better, but further treatment is needed:
@marianneschonle.bsky.social diagnoses what the Statutory #Sick Pay reforms will mean for #pregnantwomen #IWD2025 #EndPregnancyPoverty👉https://bit.ly/41H9vtV

Very excited to be at the TUC Women's Conference this week representing @maternityaction.bsky.social. Come say hello at our stall! #TUCWomensConference #ResistPersistDeliver

Let’s back Charlotte!👏She’s got a message for
the Chancellor about 2025's new #maternity pay rate. Email your MP to support Charlotte & #EndPregnancyPoverty with us! 📷https://bit.ly/3QjZ0GG #MondayMotivation #MondayVibes

Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament Written evidence submission publications for Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave.

Happy to share that Parliament's Women & Equalities Committee have published our evidence to their shared parental leave inquiry, also to see 50 submissions in total from the VSO sector and others! #maternity #paternity #Employment bit.ly/40YirJX

It’s time to reform the UK’s failed system of shared parental leave - Maternity Action By Marianne Schönle, Senior Policy Officer, Employment & Social Security Maternity Action has just responded to the Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into shared parental leave, the forerunner of...

Parents are being failed by the UK's shared parental leave scheme: our Senior Policy Officer @marianneschonle.bsky.social on why reform is long overdue and what we're calling for: bit.ly/42IqKMs #maternity #employmentrights