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Which earnings period is taken into account when calculating entitlement to statutory adoption pay? Can an employer contact an employee on adoption leave to ask if and when he or she intends to return to work? What notice and evidence is an employee required to provide to take statutory adoption leave in relation to a child adopted from within the UK? What notice and evidence is an employee required to provide to receive statutory adoption pay in relation to a child adopted from within the UK? Does an employee due to take paid statutory adoption leave in relation to a child adopted from within the UK still qualify for adoption pay if the employee leaves the employment before the leave is due to start? How should an employer respond to an employee's notice of intention to take statutory adoption leave? What are the possible consequences where an employer fails to confirm the end date of an employee's statutory adoption leave? Can an employee vary the start date of adoption leave? Where an employee has given notice to vary the start date of his or her adoption leave, how should the employer respond? Where an individual has been employed on a fixed-term contract to cover adoption leave, can the employer terminate the contract if the employee on adoption leave decides to return early? If an employee intends to return early from adoption leave is the employee required to give notice of this? Can an employee take a period of paid holiday in between ordinary adoption leave and additional adoption leave? Do employees on adoption leave continue to accrue holiday during this period? Where an employee is provided with a car allowance instead of a company car can this be withdrawn if the employee goes on adoption leave? Can an employee who is adopting a child from within the UK take on paid work during adoption leave? Can an employer insist that an employee return to work from adoption leave on a particular day of the week, where the child is adopted from within the UK? If an employee does not intend to return to work after adoption leave, is the employee required to give notice? If an employee does not return from adoption leave, does the employer have to pay in lieu of the annual leave accrued during the leave? Does an employee have the right to return to the same job after adoption leave? Does an employee who is made redundant while on adoption leave have any special rights?