Pregnant employees are entitled to take 52 weeks’ maternity leave. Pregnant employees’ partners are entitled to take two weeks’ ordinary paternity leave provided that they have the required continuous service.
New parents are also entitled to take shared parental leave. Shared parental leave enables mothers to commit to ending their maternity leave and pay at a future date, and to share the untaken balance of leave and pay as shared parental leave and pay with their partner.
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The Government has confirmed that it is to postpone the extension of the right to unpaid parental leave until 2013 due to...
Every year brings with it some important new employment legislation for the employer to negotiate. Whether related to unfair dismissal,...
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The Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010, which apply in relation to children due, or placed for adoption, on or after...
More than half (52%) of employers expect that additional paternity leave requirements, which come into force today (Sunday), will be...
As part of a raft of employment law changes being introduced by the coalition Government, April heralds the arrival of...
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