Managing employees/workers
Improved throughout to focus on practical guidance for HR and updated to reflect the new accrual method for calculating holiday entitlement for irregular hours and part-year workers, for leave years beginning on or after 1 April 2024.
A model letter to request that an employee complies with the notice and evidential requirements following an indication that they intend to take paternity leave in respect of an adopted child.
Enhanced with the addition of a PowerPoint presentation for training purposes.
A model letter to inform an employee that they have provided insufficient notice to take paternity leave in respect of a child adopted from overseas.
A model form to give an employee who has requested paternity leave and pay in relation to a child adopted from overseas the means to notify you of the date on which the child entered Great Britain.
A model letter to respond to an employee's request to take a period of paid or unpaid statutory paternity leave in relation to a child adopted from overseas, confirming that the employee is entitled to take the leave requested.
Updated to include information on Hilton Food Solutions v Wright, in which the EAT considered the question of whether an employee had "sought" to take parental leave.
Use this model form to allow an employee to cancel or vary a period of leave notice to take paternity leave (where the expected week of childbirth is after 6 April 2024).
HR and legal information and guidance relating to managing employees/workers.