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Family-friendly rights
Updated to include the rate of the lower earnings limit for 2025/26.
Updated to reflect the statutory adoption pay rate in force from 6 April 2025.
Updated to reflect the statutory shared parental pay rate in force from 6 April 2025.
Updated to reflect the statutory paternity pay rate in force from 6 April 2025.
Updated to reflect the statutory maternity pay rate in force from 6 April 2025.
Updated to set out the protected period for employees on neonatal care leave, as well as those who have recently returned from a continuous period of six weeks or more neonatal care leave.
Updated to include new details on neonatal care leave (for a child born on or after 6 April 2025).
Updated to reflect changes to the length and timing of paternity leave after 6 April 2024.
Updated to reflect the Parental Bereavement Leave Regulations 2020 in force from 6 April 2020.
A table summarising employees' entitlement to ordinary and additional statutory maternity leave.
Key facts for HR on family-friendly rights.