Important Paid
Important Paid Leave Changes On The Way
As the majority of domestic staff are women and many of you have families, a major change to Paternity paid leave has now been agreed that may well affect you, your friends or colleagues.
The changes are to Paternity Paid Leave and are as follows:
Currently paternity leave can be taken either as 1 week or 2 consecutive weeks of leave. This has now changed and under the new regulations when they come into force, this will be changed to either 2 consecutive weeks of leave or 2 separate blocks of 1 week of leave at any point in the first year.
Currently, paternity leave must be taken within 8 weeks of the birth (or placement for adoption).Th is also will change and will be extended to within 52 weeks.
Currently, for new births, notice as to new fathers’ entitlement to take leave, the duration and start date must be given by the 15th week before the expected week of childbirth (unless that’s not reasonably practicable).
The start date can be changed by giving 28 days’ notice. This will be changed so that only the entitlement to take leave must be given by the 15th week before the expected week of childbirth (unless this isn’t reasonably practicable) and only 28 days’ notice of the dates that they intend to take each period of leave.
These changes have not yet come into force and may take up to 12 months to come into effect. When the effective date is announced, we will let you know.
The Graham Agency, working with you.