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Statutory pay and leave

Find out about statutory pay and leave if you're an employee or an employer.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs, Department for Business and Trade and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 28 March 2014
• Last updated: 6 April 2025
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  1. 6 April 2025

     Statutory Neonatal Care Pay and Leave has been added.

  2. 8 April 2020

     Addition of guidance for Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay

  3. 28 March 2014

     First published.

Employees

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)

Maternity pay and leave

Paternity pay and leave

Check if you can get Maternity or Paternity Leave or Pay, or Maternity Allowance

Adoption pay and leave

Shared Parental Leave and Pay

Neonatal Care Pay and Leave

Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave

Employers

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): employer guide

Calculate your employee’s statutory sick pay

Statutory Maternity Pay and Leave: employer guide

Maternity, Adoption and paternity calculator for employers

Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave: employer guide

Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave: employer guide

Shared Parental Leave and Pay: employer guide

Statutory Neonatal Care Pay and Leave: employer guide

Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave: employer guide

Get financial help with statutory pay

Additional information about statutory pay and leave for employers

Statutory Sick Pay

• Statutory Sick Pay: business changes that affect payment
  • 14 March 2014
  • Guidance
• Statutory Sick Pay: employee circumstances that affect payment
  • 19 January 2017
  • Guidance
• Statutory Sick Pay: employee fitness to work
  • 23 November 2022
  • Guidance
• Statutory Sick Pay: how different employment types affect what you pay
  • 6 April 2026
  • Guidance
• Work out your employee's Statutory Sick Pay manually
  • 6 April 2026
  • Guidance
• Statutory Sick Pay: tables for linking Periods of Incapacity for Work
  • 6 April 2026
  • Guidance

Statutory Maternity Pay

• Statutory Maternity Pay: business changes that affect payment
  • 16 July 2020
  • Guidance
• Statutory Maternity Pay: employee circumstances that affect payment
  • 18 December 2023
  • Guidance
• Statutory Maternity Pay: how different employment types affect what you pay
  • 1 September 2017
  • Guidance
• Work out your employee's payments for Statutory Maternity Pay
  • 6 April 2025
  • Guidance
• Statutory Maternity Pay: table of dates for employee entitlement
  • 6 April 2026
  • Guidance

Statutory Paternity Pay

• Statutory Paternity Pay: business changes that affect payment
  • 21 July 2020
  • Guidance
• Statutory Paternity Pay: employee circumstances that affect payment
  • 17 April 2024
  • Guidance
• Statutory Paternity Pay: how different employment types affect what you pay
  • 13 May 2016
  • Guidance
• Statutory Paternity Pay: manually calculate your employee’s payments
  • 6 April 2025
  • Guidance
• Statutory Paternity Pay: table of dates for employee entitlement (adoption)
  • 6 April 2026
  • Guidance
• Statutory Paternity Pay: table of dates for employee entitlement (birth)
  • 6 April 2026
  • Guidance

Statutory Adoption Pay

• Statutory Adoption Pay: business changes that affect payment
  • 16 July 2020
  • Guidance
• Statutory Adoption Pay: employee circumstances that affect payment
  • 27 April 2020
  • Guidance
• Statutory Adoption Pay: how different employment types affect what you pay
  • 13 May 2016
  • Guidance
• Statutory Adoption Pay: manually calculate your employee's payments
  • 6 April 2025
  • Guidance
• Statutory Adoption Pay: table of dates for employee entitlement
  • 6 April 2026
  • Guidance

Statutory Neonatal Care Pay

• Business changes that affect payment of Statutory Neonatal Care Pay
  • 17 June 2025
  • Guidance
• How different employment types affect Statutory Neonatal Care Pay
  • 20 June 2025
  • Guidance
• Employee circumstances that affect payment of Statutory Neonatal Care Pay
  • 7 July 2025
  • Guidance
• Manually calculate Statutory Neonatal Care Pay
  • 17 July 2025
  • Guidance
• Tell an employee that they're not eligible for Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (NEO1)
  • 7 July 2025
  • Guidance

Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay

• Business changes that affect payment of Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay
  • 16 July 2020
  • Guidance
• How different employment types affect what you pay in Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay
  • 6 April 2026
  • Guidance
• Employee circumstances that affect payment of Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay
  • 6 April 2026
  • Guidance
• Manually calculate an employee's Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay
  • 5 May 2026
  • Guidance
• Tables showing relevant weeks and start dates for Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay
  • 6 April 2026
  • Guidance

Penalties, disagreements and compromise agreements for employers

• Statutory Pay: employer penalties
  • 28 March 2014
  • Guidance
• Statutory Pay entitlement: how to deal with disagreements
  • 17 July 2020
  • Guidance
• Statutory Payments and Compromise Agreements
  • 18 March 2014
  • Guidance