Updating author: Darren
Newman
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Summary
Future developments
Action point checklist
Key references
Questions and answers
The right to parental leave
Disenfranchised parents
Evidence of parenthood
Procedures for taking parental leave
The 'fallback' parental leave scheme
Records
Employee rights and obligations during parental leave
Refusal to grant parental leave
Return to work after parental leave
Dismissal and victimisation
Summary
3.1024
- The employed parents of a child under the age of five each
have the legal right to take up to 13 weeks' unpaid parental leave until the
child's fifth birthday. (See 3.1026 The right to parental leave)
- The employed parents of a child placed with them for
adoption each have the legal right to take up to 13 weeks' unpaid parental leave
until the fifth anniversary of the adoption or until the child's 18th
birthday, whichever occurs sooner.
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