Adoption leave and adoption pay

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Adoption pay

  Updated to include the proposed rate of statutory adoption pay for 2024/25.

• Type:

  How to

  How to deal with the holiday entitlement of an employee taking adoption leave

  Updated to reflect that regulations are expected to come into force on 1 January 2024 confirming that annual leave that cannot be taken due to adoption leave can be carried forward.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Adoption leave

  Updated to reflect that the Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act has received Royal Assent.

• Type:

  How to

  How to deal with keeping-in-touch days during adoption leave

  Updated to reflect the increase to the statutory adoption pay rate from 2 April 2023.

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Statutory adoption pay

  Updated to reflect the statutory adoption pay rate in force from 2 April 2023.

• Date:

  13 January 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Employment law 2023: six key tasks for HR

  We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Statutory maternity pay and other family-related statutory pay rates increase

  The weekly rates of statutory maternity pay, statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay, statutory shared parental pay and statutory parental bereavement pay increase.

• Date:

  24 June 2022

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  Check out our meeting/hearing checklists for HR/line managers

  Our popular Policies and documents tool includes a selection of checklists to assist HR and line managers when holding some common meetings or hearings related to a number of key workplace processes.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Statutory maternity pay and other family-related statutory pay rates increase

  The weekly rates of statutory maternity pay, statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay, statutory shared parental pay and statutory parental bereavement pay increase.

• Type:

  Survey analysis

  Maternity leave and pay: XpertHR survey 2021

  Our research finds that although a majority of organisations enhance maternity pay above the statutory provision, they take a wide range of approaches in doing so.