Redundancy protection: pregnancy and family leave - protected periods

Author: Stephen Simpson

There is a "protected period" during which employees who have informed their employer that they are pregnant, who are on maternity leave or who have recently returned from maternity leave have the right to be offered any suitable alternative vacancy in a redundancy situation. A protected period also applies to employees on adoption leave, shared parental leave and neonatal care leave, as well as those who have recently returned from adoption leave or a continuous period of six weeks or more shared parental leave or neonatal care leave.