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What is the right to parental leave?

The right to parental leave is an employee's right to be absent from work for the purpose of caring for a child for whom he or she has parental responsibility. Parents can use it to spend more time with their children and achieve a better balance between their work and family life.

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What is parental leave and who is entitled to it?

For the purposes of parental leave, how is "parental responsibility" defined?

Does the statutory fallback position on taking parental leave vary where the child in question is disabled?

What are the procedures for taking parental leave?

Can both parents of a child take parental leave in relation to that child?

What is the procedure for postponing parental leave under the fallback provisions?

Can a period of just one day's parental leave be taken?

Must employees be paid during parental leave?

What happens if an employer refuses to grant parental leave?

What rights and benefits must be maintained during a period of parental leave?

Is an employee entitled to return to the same job after parental leave?

Does a period of parental leave break continuity of service?

Can an employee take a period of parental leave immediately following the end of her maternity leave?

Does an employee have the absolute right to take parental leave following on directly from maternity leave or can the period of parental leave be postponed for business reasons?

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 take a week's parental leave where the child's fifth birthday falls during that week?

What process should employers follow to cover the work of an employee on additional paternity or parental leave?

Must an employee's ex-employer inform his or her new employer of any parental leave taken?

Do grandparents have any right to paid or unpaid leave to spend time with their grandchildren?

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