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An employee has submitted a paternity leave request form, indicating that they intend to take their full two weeks’ leave entitlement in one go. However, their chosen dates don’t suit you. Can you
ask them to defer their paternity leave?
Published 26.05.2022
There have been numerous reports in the media that ordinary paternity leave and pay rights will both soon be enhanced. How likely is this to happen and what is the earliest point that paternity leave
can start?
Published 23.03.2015
If a child is due on, or after, April 3 2011 the father or mother’s partner will be entitled to 26 weeks’ “additional paternity leave”. But babies are rarely on time. So what happens if they arrive
before the legal deadline?
Published 15.06.2010
One your employees became a new father two months ago. They’ve now requested to take their two weeks’ statutory paternity leave. Must you agree to their request or has their right expired?
Published 26.10.2021
Pregnant employees have extensive statutory maternity leave and pay rights. If eligible, their partners will separately be entitled to statutory paternity leave (SPL) and statutory paternity pay
(SPP). What are the basic statutory entitlements here?
Published 22.09.2022
An employee writing anonymously on social media claimed that they’d invented the births of four children to fraudulently take paternity leave. How was this possible and what’s the easiest way to
prevent this type of fraud?
Published 20.09.2023
A woman’s right to take statutory maternity leave commences on day one of employment - no qualifying service is needed. But what about the right to take two weeks’ statutory paternity leave - when
does it start?
Published 10.01.2018
One of your employees, a first-time father-to-be, insists that he has the right to paid time off to attend the birth of his child. Do statutory paternity leave rights cover this event? If not, what’s
the legal position?
Published 30.11.2010
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