Grant Thornton UK LLP
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Creating an environment where our people flourish

Creating an environment where our people flourish

To flourish, our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why we’ve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children, family and beyond.

Our policies and practices around flexible working & family:

Agile Working

Agility is a mind-set that is based on trust and flexibility. We encourage our people to explore, within their teams, how they can work in an agile way which allows them to be at their best, deliver high-quality work and meet their responsibilities in and outside of work.

Flexible Working

The time you spend outside of work helps shape what you can bring to our firm. We value the commitments you may have outside of work and to demonstrate this, all of our people have an immediate right to request a flexible working arrangement under our flexible working policy.

Adoption (including surrogacy) & Maternity Leave*

Our adoption (including surrogacy) and maternity leave policies are designed to provide flexibility and confidence for our parents and families.

Our policies offer our people:

52 weeks leave and 39 weeks statutory pay
a family leave allowance (FLA) equivalent to 25% gross salary
flexibility to decide how to receive FLA throughout adoption/maternity leave
option to transfer up to four weeks of FLA into shared parental leave

Ordinary Paternity Leave*

Ordinary paternity leave enables fathers and partners to spend some time with their new family.

Our policy offers our people:

two weeks ordinary paternity leave
two weeks basic statutory paternity pay (SPP)
family leave pay which tops up any SPP entitlement to two weeks gross pay
the flexibility to split your two weeks ordinary paternity leave into weekly blocks.

Shared Parental Leave*

Under shared parental leave, the mother or primary adopter can decide to share up to 50 weeks leave and 37 weeks statutory pay with their partner. Our policy also enables parents to take leave together, at the same time.

Our policy offers our people:

four weeks family leave pay (FLP), equivalent to four weeks gross pay
flexibility to decide how to receive FLP during shared parental leave.

Parental Leave*

Our parental leave policy enables parents to take up to four weeks unpaid parental leave per year, per child. We’ve removed the statutory length of service criteria so all parents can access this policy on joining the firm. Don't confuse this with any leave taken following the arrival of a new child that would count as maternity, paternity or adoption leave.

*Note: The information outlined above is intended to provide a brief overview of our current family leave policies, so does not include detailed information such as eligibility criteria or other policy requirements. We also need to make you aware that the firm also reserves the right to amend or withdraw our policies at any time. For full details of our current policies and eligibility requirements contact us or ask your recruiter during the application process.

Flexibility and our family policies are just some ways we are creating an environment where our people can flourish. Read more about how we are unlocking the potential for growth in our employees through diversity, inclusion and empowerment.