CRITERIOS DE EVALUACIÓN TECNOLOGÍAS: INDICADORES DE LOGRO 3º ESO

The PPL scheme provides payments to parents while they are on leave from work as primary carers of their babies. It relies on recipients either taking paid or unpaid leave from their jobs, or otherwise not working (e.g., because they have resigned).

6.9.1 Main Findings

There were no indications that a lack of leave availability has been a significant barrier to mothers taking PLP. Mothers combine PLP with leave available from their jobs in a variety of ways that best suit their needs. Nevertheless, there is evidence of continuing misunderstanding among mothers about their eligibility for statutory unpaid leave under the NES following the birth of a baby.

6.9.2 Implications

The PPL scheme is integrating as intended with employer-provided paid and unpaid leave, including statutory rights to unpaid leave. A significant proportion of mothers may still not fully understand their statutory unpaid leave rights, but there is no real evidence that this is affecting their ability to access leave and PLP.

6.10 Keeping in Touch

The PPL scheme provides recipients of PLP and their employers with the option for recipients to access a total of 10 KIT days to participate in paid work activities for the purpose of keeping in touch with their workplace, without losing their entitlement to PLP.

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6.10.1 Main Findings

The KIT provisions of the PPL scheme remained unknown to a large proportion of employers and mothers. Half of employers and just over half of mothers did not know about these provisions. Employers who were aware of the KIT provisions were very likely to have used them or to intend to do so. Over half of employers who had used the provisions saw benefits in them, particularly through helping employees to keep up-to-date and engaged with the organisation, and ease their return to work. Beyond formal KIT arrangements provided for in the PPL legislation, many mothers had informal contact with their workplaces while they were on parental leave, whether they and/or their employers were aware of the KIT provisions or not.

6.10.2 Implications

The KIT provisions have generally been received quite positively by those mothers and employers who are aware of them. Unsurprisingly, large employers have been more aware of KIT than smaller ones. Continued monitoring of awareness of the KIT provisions is appropriate, as is review of the information sources through which employers and employees become aware of them.

6.11 Conclusion

This evaluation has focused on the immediate outcomes of the PPL scheme. Much of the scheme has operated largely as intended and expected, though a number of aspects will need to be monitored into the future. Some review of the arrangements for PLP payments may be appropriate, since the timely receipt of payments is an area where the evaluation found some real difficulties.

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