Employment Act 2002

Correction to previous bulletin

The bulletin sent out half an hour ago stated:

The DTI has published its response, following its consultation paper on simplifying maternity/paternity rules. The conclusions include:
• paternity leave will be available only in one block (of either one or two weeks), rather than available to be taken on a day-by-day basis;
• notification for maternity leave to remain at 21 days (the government had initially suggested increasing it to 28 days).

In fact, it should have stated:

The DTI has published its response, following its consultation paper on simplifying maternity/paternity rules. The conclusions include:
• paternity leave will be available only in one block (of either one or two weeks), rather than available to be taken on a day-by-day basis;
• notification for parental leave to remain at 21 days (the government had initially suggested increasing it to 28 days).

Apologies for the error!