How our people’s happiness helps create more positive outcomes for your business.

Pinsent Masons is fundamentally a "people" business, and we work hard to develop and sustain an inclusive and healthy culture which prioritises wellbeing and where all our people feel they belong and have the opportunity to reach their potential.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion reinforces and supports our strategy to attract, retain and enable talented people and reflects our values and purpose, and we are passionate about ensuring that everyone in the firm feels respected and included.

We encourage agile working so employees can work flexibly outside of core working hours to avoid the need to take holiday or unpaid leave to help them manage their personal circumstances accordingly.  Agile working also allows employees to work from any location, including but not necessarily from home, to enable them to be on hand if required for caring, family or other interests and responsibilities.

Our aim is to be market leaders in family friendly provisions and our suite of policies to support parents and carers is testament to our dedication in this area.  As a business we are committed to creating an environment that allows everyone to better manage the balance between family and work responsibilities. 

Family Friendly Policies

We offer the following:

• Enhanced paid leave of up to 52 weeks in the UK for maternity, adoption and surrogacy leave. In addition, we allow paid time off to attend antenatal appointments for both parents, regardless of gender.
• A minimum of 16 weeks paid leave across all of our global offices (local policies will apply).  This is fully paid, and available to both birth and non-birth parents, regardless of gender.  
• Shared parental leave where parents can share 50 weeks of leave and 37 weeks’ pay which can be taken any time up to the child’s first birthday.
• Unpaid leave for parents of up to four weeks per child per year (up to the child’s 18th birthday), providing an employee has one year’s continuous service at the time the leave is taken.
• Specific support for anyone dealing with the tragedy of losing a pregnancy, baby or infant, whether it happens directly to them, their partner or their baby’s surrogate, regardless of the nature of their loss, and whatever their length of service.
• A Domestic Abuse policy which details the leave we provide as well as support available for anyone experiencing, or involved in, domestic abuse (including coercive control or financial manipulation) to promote their health, safety, and wellbeing at work.

Fertility

Our Fertility Policy now allows more flexibility for time off during the fertility process and for medical appointments and recovery afterwards. The aim of this policy is to provide anyone with the confidential help needed to facilitate an easier process at what can be a very difficult time and is also now available to both parents, regardless of gender.  Our Fertility Support Group supports anyone dealing with fertility issues and baby loss at any stage. The group is open to all.

Caring

Anyone with significant caring responsibilities may take time off work to manage these commitments.  We recognise the challenging and unpredictable nature of caring, and endeavour to support our people in combining work with care by allowing up to five days paid leave per year to deal with such situations.            

Regardless of length of service, everyone is eligible for carer's leave. This includes everyone who works full-time or part-time, and anyone on fixed term contracts.  If you are part-time, the number of days is equivalent to your normal working week.

Health & Wellbeing

• We offer a full range of support to our employees who are going through the menopause or peri-menopause, plus guidance for line managers in helping their team members.
• We also have a network of Mental Health Champions who are on hand to provide are available to listen and point you in the direction of useful resources.

Additional Benefits

• We have an employee assistance programme which is a free and confidential service available to all our people. The programme provides access to a wide range of services including health advice, counselling, legal support, childcare and elderly care support services.
• We offer flexible opt-in benefits such as private medical insurance, virtual GP service (with unlimited appointments for you and your family), travel Insurance, dental insurance, health screening and critical illness insurance, plus learning and development, bonus scheme, pension and staff referral scheme. We also offer employee discounts on a range of family fun days out.