Parents will be able to share time off with new baby
Parents will be able to share time off with their newborn baby under plans being introduced by the Government.
Fathers will be able to take additional paternity leave during the second six months of the baby’s life if the mother decides to return to work. The idea is to give families the flexibility to share the mother’s 12 months maternity entitlement if they so wish.
The father could take up to six months paternity leave in this way and for three of those months he would be paid the same rate as Statutory Maternity Pay which is currently £123.06 a week.
Ministers intend the legislation to be in place by April this year and to take effect for parents of children born after 3rd April 2011.
March 2010
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