Family-friendly rights and support

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• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer insist that part-time employees arrange all their antenatal appointments for times when they are not working?

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  FAQs

  Can an employer offer an employee less money for alternative work during their pregnancy where they cannot do their normal job because of the risks involved?

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  FAQs

  If a pregnant employee is given suitable alternative work during their pregnancy, is their right to return to work after maternity leave the right to return to this job or to their normal position?

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  FAQs

  Where an annual pay rise coincides with an employee's maternity leave will this affect their maternity pay?

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  FAQs

  If a part-time employee temporarily increases their hours for a period prior to maternity leave, on what basis should their maternity pay be calculated?

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  FAQs

  If an employee does not intend to return to work after maternity leave are they required to give notice?

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  FAQs

  What is the minimum provision for maternity leave?

• Date:

  14 April 2008

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Automatically unfair dismissal: Causal link between dismissal and paternity leave necessary

  In Atkins v Coyle Personnel plc EAT/0206/07, the EAT held that, for an employee to claim successfully that his dismissal was related to the fact that he had taken paternity leave, there must be a causal link between the dismissal and the leave.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Must keeping-in-touch days be taken after the child's birth, or can they be taken prior to the birth?

• Type:

  How to

  How to ensure employees' smooth reintroduction to the workplace on their return from maternity leave

  Practical guidance on employees' smooth reintroduction to the workplace on their return from maternity leave.