Group will become first major British retailer to offer six months’ parental leave to all its employees
The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) has become the latest British business, and the first major retailer, to equalise the parental leave it offers employees.
The employee-owned retailer, which encompasses John Lewis and Waitrose, will offer all of its 80,000-strong workforce six months’ paid parental leave, in a move welcomed by equality campaigners who argued the government’s current shared parental leave scheme is “failing”.
