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  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Neonatal care leave policy (adoption)

    The final versions of the Neonatal Care Leave and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2025 and Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (General) Regulations 2025 have been published. There are no changes in this policy from the previous draft version.

  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Neonatal care leave policy (birth)

    The final versions of the Neonatal Care Leave and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2025 and Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (General) Regulations 2025 have been published. There are no changes in this policy from the previous draft version.

  • Type:
    Legal timetable

    Neonatal care leave and pay

    Updated to reflect that the Regulations setting out the detail of neonatal care leave and pay have been finalised. 

  • Date:
    18 March 2025
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Tribunal round-up - disability-related absence

    Susie Munro, senior legal editor at Brightmine, looks at three cases where employers have lost "discrimination arising from disability" claims after treating workers unfavourably because of disability-related absence.

  • Date:
    12 March 2025
    Type:
    News

    Ministers commit to miscarriage and pregnancy loss leave

    The Government 'fully accepts the principle of bereavement leave for pregnancy loss' and will take forward amendments to the Employment Rights Bill, tabled by 87 MPs, to include miscarriage in bereavement rights.

  • Type:
    Quick reference

    Statutory parental bereavement pay

    Updated to include the statutory parental bereavement pay rates in force from 6 April 2025. 

  • Type:
    Quick reference

    Statutory adoption pay

    Updated to reflect the statutory adoption pay rate in force from 6 April 2025.

  • Type:
    Quick reference

    Statutory shared parental pay

    Updated to reflect the statutory shared parental pay rate in force from 6 April 2025. 

  • Type:
    Quick reference

    Statutory paternity pay

    Updated to reflect the statutory paternity pay rate in force from 6 April 2025. 

  • Type:
    Quick reference

    Statutory maternity pay (SMP)

    Updated to reflect the statutory maternity pay rate in force from 6 April 2025. 

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