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Can keeping-in-touch days be taken as half days?

Regulation 12A(2) of the Maternity and Parental Leave Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/3312) provides that "any work carried out on any day shall constitute a day's work". This means that keeping-in-touch days may be worked as half days, but each half day worked will count as a whole day. Guidance from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills states that if a woman on maternity leave comes in for a one-hour training session and does no other work on that day, she will have used up one of her keeping-in-touch days. This means that the 10 permissible keeping-in-touch days cannot be used to create 20 half days. If a woman works on one keeping-in-touch day, this counts as a whole day. The same rights are available to employees on adoption leave and additional paternity leave.

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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?

Which employees are entitled to statutory adoption leave?

Where a couple are adopting a child can they both take statutory adoption leave?

Will a step-parent who adopts his or her partner's child qualify for statutory adoption leave?

How much statutory adoption leave is an employee entitled to take?

Where an employee is adopting two children, will he or she be entitled to two periods of adoption leave?

Do employees have a statutory right to time off work prior to the commencement of adoption leave to attend placement meetings?

What qualifying service is necessary for statutory adoption leave?

When can an employee begin his or her statutory adoption leave?

Will an employee be paid during statutory adoption leave?

When is an employee entitled to receive statutory adoption pay?

For how long is statutory adoption pay payable?

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