Additional paternity leave

03 Jun 2011

The right to additional paternity leave is now available to parents of babies due on or after 3 April 2011, and to adoptive parents notified of their match for adoption on or after that date.  

 

It is clear that an employee on paternity leave during a redundancy exercise is entitled to be offered any suitable vacancy in the same way as a woman on maternity leave. The extent to which an employee on paternity leave is entitled to any additional protection is less clear and, no doubt, will give rise to some problems that tribunals may have to resolve.

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