Paternity leave and paternity pay

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• Type:

  FAQs

  Is a child's father automatically entitled to statutory paternity leave?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer request that an employee defer their paternity leave?

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Form for employee taking paternity leave to provide notification of date of child's placement (adoption within UK)

  A model form for an employee to notify the employer of the actual date on which the child in respect of whom paternity leave is sought was placed for adoption.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to employee whose partner suffers miscarriage explaining their paternity rights

  A model letter to an employee whose partner has suffered a miscarriage before 24 weeks of pregnancy explaining their paternity rights.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing employee of ineligibility for statutory paternity leave and pay because of insufficient service

  A model letter to an employee informing them of ineligibility for paternity leave.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Which employees are entitled to paternity leave?

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  FAQs

  Where an employee's partner is expecting twins will the employee be entitled to two lots of paternity leave?

• Type:

  FAQs

  In which circumstances is an employee entitled to receive statutory paternity pay?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is an employee who qualifies for statutory paternity pay entitled to receive it if they are made redundant before taking paternity 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.