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Can keeping-in-touch days be taken as half days? Must keeping-in-touch days be taken in a two-week block, or can they be taken as separate days? What process should employers follow to cover the work of an employee on additional paternity or parental leave? If an employee intends to return early from additional paternity leave is the employee obliged to inform the employer? If an employee does not intend to return to work after additional paternity leave is the employee required to give notice? If an employee does not return to work from additional paternity leave, does the employer have to pay the employee in lieu of annual leave accrued during the paternity leave? Does an employee have the right to return to the same job after additional paternity leave? Where an employee takes ordinary or additional paternity leave followed immediately by more than four weeks' parental leave, is he entitled to return to his original job? Can an employee who is absent due to sickness in the months immediately after the birth or adoption of a child take paid ordinary paternity leave at a later date?
The right to statutory adoption leave is available to eligible employees notified that they (alone or jointly) have been matched with a child for adoption. Adoption leave is also available to eligible employees who have adopted a child from overseas.
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