Shared parental leave and shared parental pay

New and updated

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Length of statutory shared parental leave

  A table summarising employees' entitlement to statutory shared parental leave.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

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

  Updated to reflect that the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2019 has been finalised.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter offering suitable alternative vacancy to employee made redundant during shared parental leave

  Updated to include information on the Government's proposals to extend redundancy protection for employees after shared parental leave.

• Date:

  3 May 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  Shared parental pay: Tribunal should rehear indirect sex discrimination claim, rules EAT

  In Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police and another, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) remitted to a fresh tribunal the issue of whether or not a police force's policy of giving a period of full pay to mothers on maternity leave, but paying only statutory shared parental pay to partners, is indirectly discriminatory.

• Date:

  30 April 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  Sex discrimination: No direct discrimination when only statutory minimum paid to those on shared parental leave

  In Capita Customer Management Ltd v Ali [2018] IRLR 586 EAT, the EAT held that there was no direct sex discrimination when an employer offered 14 weeks of enhanced maternity pay, but paid only the statutory minimum to employees taking shared parental leave.

• Date:

  12 April 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  Shared parental pay: EAT overturns finding of sex discrimination

  In Capita Customer Management Ltd v Ali and another, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that the failure to pay a father shared parental pay at the same rate as an employee on maternity leave is not sex discrimination.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Form for adopter to curtail their adoption leave to take shared parental leave

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Form for adopter to provide notice of entitlement and intention to take shared parental leave (adoptions within the UK)

  A model HR form to allow an adopter to provide a notice of entitlement and intention to take shared parental leave for adoptions within the UK.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Form for adopter's partner to provide notice of entitlement and intention to take shared parental leave (adoptions within the UK)

  Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter confirming continuous period of shared parental leave

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.