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Employer and employee guide to unpaid parental leave - eligibility, how much leave can be taken and notice periods, postponing leave
Eligible employees can take unpaid parental leave to look after their…
Parental leave is unpaid. You’re entitled to 18 weeks’ leave for each…
Employees qualify if all of these apply: they’re named on the child’s…
Employees must give 21 days’ notice before their intended start date. If…
Leave cannot be postponed (delayed) if: the employer does not have a…
Your Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave - eligibility, what you get, how to claim.
When you take time off because your partner’s having a baby, adopting a…
Paternity leave You can take either 1 or 2 weeks’ leave. If you choose to…
The statutory weekly rate of Paternity Pay is £187.18, or 90% of your…
You must be taking time off to look after the child and be one of the…
You claim Paternity Leave and Pay through your employer. You do not need…
Eligibility You must have been continuously employed by your employer for…
Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal care or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy.
You can start Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) if you're eligible and you or your partner ends your maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL and splitting blocks of leave
Employer guide to Statutory Paternity Pay or Leave - entitlement, eligibility, notice period, forms SC3 and SPP1, recover statutory pay.
Government review of the parental leave and pay system in Great Britain, co-led by the Department for Business and Trade and the Department for Work and Pensions.
Your employee can take Shared Parental Leave (SPL) if they're eligible and they or their partner ends their maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL, splitting blocks of leave and record keeping
New day one rights to parental leave set to enter force from April.
How to claim Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave: what you are entitled to, check if you're eligible and how to claim it.
Your Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - what you get, how to claim, maternity rights and extra help
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