More FAQs: Shared parental leave

Recently published FAQs on XpertHR answer more employers' questions on shared parental leave and statutory shared parental pay.

• How much notice that they intend to take shared parental leave must employees give?
• Can an employer insist on evidence that an employee is entitled to shared parental leave?
• Can same-sex couples take shared parental leave?
• Do employees receive statutory pay while on shared parental leave?
• How is statutory shared parental pay divided between the parents if they take shared parental leave at the same time as each other?
• If an employee takes shared parental leave with his or her partner, who is responsible for paying the employee's partner?
• Are parents entitled to shared parental leave if their baby is due before 5 April 2015 but is born on or after that date?
• Can an employee take shared parental leave if his or her partner is self-employed?
• If an employer pays enhanced maternity pay, must it also enhance pay to employees on shared parental leave?
• Can an employer refuse an employee's request to take shared parental leave or require him or her to take it at a different time?

More FAQs covering different aspects of the new shared parental leave and pay regime will be published in the coming months.