Shared parental leave and shared parental pay

New and updated

• Form for an employee to vary a period of leave notice to take shared parental leave

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include the latest information on the possible extension of shared parental leave to grandparents.

• Letter rejecting a request for discontinuous periods of shared parental leave

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include the latest information on the possible extension of shared parental leave to grandparents.

• Form for an employee adopting a child to provide a period of leave notice to take shared parental leave (adoptions from overseas)

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include the latest information on the possible extension of shared parental leave to grandparents.

• Form for an adopter to revoke the notice curtailing their adoption leave to take shared parental leave

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include the latest information on the possible extension of shared parental leave to grandparents.

• Form for an employee to vary a notice of entitlement and intention to take shared parental leave in an adoption situation

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include the latest information on the possible extension of shared parental leave to grandparents.

• Form for an employee to vary a period of leave notice to take shared parental leave in an adoption situation

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include the latest information on the possible extension of shared parental leave to grandparents.

• Form for an employee adopting a child to provide a period of leave notice to take shared parental leave (adoptions within the UK)

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include the latest information on the possible extension of shared parental leave to grandparents.

• Sex discrimination: £28,321 award over Network Rail's policy on enhanced shared parental pay

  Date:

  5 October 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  An employment tribunal in Scotland has awarded £28,321 to a Network Rail employee over his employer's policy of giving a period of full pay to mothers and primary adopters on shared parental leave, but paying only statutory shared parental pay to partners and secondary adopters.

• Enhanced pay key to shared parental leave take-up

  Date:

  2 June 2016

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Employers that enhance shared parental pay are twice as likely to receive shared parental leave requests as those that offer the statutory rate, according to research released by XpertHR Benchmarking.

• Statutory shared parental leave

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  A type of leave that is available to parents with babies due on or after 5 April 2015, and to adoptive parents of children who are placed for adoption on or after 5 April 2015.