Family-friendly rights and support

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  Tasks

  Respond to an employee's request to take shared parental leave and pay in an adoption situation where the employee is the main adopter's partner

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  Letters and forms

  Letter responding to employee whose maternity leave has been triggered by early birth

  A model letter to respond to an employee who has notified you that they have given birth early.

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  Policies and procedures

  Checklist for holding pre-maternity leave meeting

  A model checklist to use when holding a pre-maternity leave meeting.

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  Letters and forms

  Letter inviting employee to pre-maternity leave meeting

  A model letter to invite an employee to a pre-maternity leave meeting.

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  FAQs

  Do grandparents have any right to paid or unpaid leave to spend time with their grandchildren?

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  Employment law cases

  Shared parental pay: Father denied fully paid leave to allow wife with post-natal depression to return to work

  An employment tribunal has held that it was direct sex discrimination for a new father whose wife had post-natal depression to be allowed to take only two weeks' leave on full pay, when female staff were entitled to 14 weeks' enhanced maternity leave.

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  How to

  How to deal with the situation where an employee becomes pregnant again while on maternity leave

  Practical guidance on dealing with the situation where an employee becomes pregnant again while on maternity leave, including entitlement to SMP.

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  Letters and forms

  Form for adopter to provide period of leave notice to take shared parental leave (adoptions from overseas)

  A model form to allow an adoptive parent to provide a period of leave notice to take shared parental leave for adoption from overseas.

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  Letters and forms

  Form for adopter to revoke notice curtailing their adoption leave for purpose of shared parental leave

  A model form to allow an adopter to revoke an adoption leave curtailment notice that they have submitted to enable them to take shared parental leave.

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  Letters and forms

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

  A model form to allow an employee in an adoption situation to vary a notice of entitlement and intention to take shared parental leave.