Fertility treatment

New and updated

• Date:

  9 August 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Promoting workplace gender equality: Five innovative health-related policies

  Employers are increasingly focused on using health initiatives to remove barriers to gender equality, diversity and inclusion. We round up five gender-focused health-related policies that have caught on in UK workplaces in recent years.

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Fertility treatment policy

  A model policy to set out any time off that your organisation grants to employees who are undergoing fertility treatment and explains the support available to them.

• Type:

  How to

  How to support an employee who is undergoing IVF treatment

  Practical guidance on dealing with an employee who is undergoing IVF treatment, including protection from discrimination during fertility treatment and time off for antenatal care.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Do employees have a statutory right to time off for fertility treatment?

• Type:

  Tasks

  Manage an employee who is undergoing IVF treatment

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employer harassed and victimised employee after she underwent IVF treatment

  This case is a prime example of the problems that can occur in a workplace when a member of staff is undergoing IVF treatment in a bid to get pregnant.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Will an employee who takes time off for fertility treatment be entitled to statutory or contractual sick pay?

• Date:

  1 March 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Identified for redundancy because of IVF absence

  A woman whose absence resulting from IVF treatment was treated as part of her sickness record for redundancy purposes was unlawfully discriminated against on the grounds of sex, rules an Ashford industrial tribunal (Chair: G W Davies) in Robinson v London Borough of Greenwich.