Employees have a variety of ‘family friendly’ rights, including:
- maternity/adoption leave of up to one year. The first 39 weeks of leave is paid at a statutory rate. For six weeks, the rate is 90% of normal salary then a fixed rate applies. For more information, read about Statutory maternity pay
- two weeks’ unpaid paternity leave plus the right to take an unused portion of the mother’s maternity leave
- unpaid parental leave for up to 13 weeks before a child’s fifth birthday. Normally, only four weeks of parental leave can be taken in any year. reasonable unpaid time off to deal with domestic emergencies