The government has published draft regulations which, once in force, will make changes to the way in which employees exercise their statutory entitlement to paternity leave. What are the changes?
Published 07.02.2024
As to be expected, many employers are focused on the new statutory right to shared parental leave. However, on 5 April 2015 there will be an important change to ordinary parental leave rights too.
What’s happening here?
Published 13.01.2015
The new shared parental leave (SPL) regime - which comes into force on 1 December 2014 - will be available to eligible parents where their baby is due on, or after, 5 April 2015. What happens if
the baby is born late or early?
Published 06.11.2014
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
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
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
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
The government has announced plans to increase paternity leave to six months. Sounds like yet another headache. So why is there no need to panic?
Published 06.10.2009
The tribunal has awarded a male employee nearly £30,000 because he was only paid the statutory rate of pay during his period of shared parental leave (SPL). Should you be worried by this case?
Published 20.10.2016