FAQs: Shared parental leave
Recently published FAQs on XpertHR answer employers' questions about the new system of shared parental leave, available from April 2015.
- When does shared parental leave come in?
- How will shared parental leave operate?
- Can both parents take shared parental leave at the same time?
- What is the difference between shared parental leave and additional paternity leave?
- Can employees still take ordinary paternity leave once shared parental leave is in force?
- Are there any changes to the regime for 18 weeks' unpaid parental leave as a result of the introduction of shared parental leave?
- When will the mother of a child be eligible to take shared parental leave?
- When will the father of a child, or the partner of a child's mother, be eligible to take shared parental leave?
- Does an employee made redundant while on shared parental leave have any special rights?
- Can employees on shared parental leave take keeping-in-touch days?
- Does an employee have the right to return to the same job after taking a period of shared parental leave?
More FAQs covering different aspects of the new shared parental leave and pay regime will be published in the coming months.