We have a couple of members of staff who are parent governors at their childrens’ schools. As a company we are keen to encourage our employees to get involved with the local community and take up extra positions of responsibility such as parent governors. We currently allow staff to attend parent governor meetings in work time but it must be taken as holiday, the time made up, or as unpaid leave. One member of staff has asked whether the Company should be providing extra paid leave for her Parent Governor duties – my understanding is that there is no legal requirement for us to do this, but I wondered what other HR professionals’ experience of this was!

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Jo Barnett