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Time off for appointments, caring and public duties

Occasionally your Anybody who works for a business, whether as an employee, casual worker, apprentice, agency worker or freelancer. will require time off unexpectedly and outside of their usual Paid time off work to which members of staff are entitled each year, also known as holiday leave. entitlement. This section will help you to understand when you must allow Anybody who works for a business, whether as an employee, casual worker, apprentice, agency worker or freelancer. time off to attend medical appointments, deal with emergencies or following a bereavement. It will also guide you through your responsibilities towards Anybody who works for a business, whether as an employee, casual worker, apprentice, agency worker or freelancer. who require time off for jury service or to fulfil other public duties, and how to deal with requests for A period of leave from work available to employees with children under the age of 18, in order to allow them to care for their children. by Anybody who works for a business, whether as an employee, casual worker, apprentice, agency worker or freelancer. who have children or dependants.

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Time off for medical appointments and emergencies

  1. 1.Must I allow my staff time off work to attend medical appointments?
  2. 2.Can I require my staff to arrange medical appointments at certain times of the day or to take annual leave to attend them?
  3. 3.Must I allow my staff member time off work to attend medical appointments if they have a disability?
  4. 4.Must I allow my staff time off to deal with an emergency?
  5. 5.Must I allow my staff time off to care for a sick relative or deal with disruptions to childcare?
  6. 6.How much notice do employees need to give me if they are applying for carer's leave?
  7. 7.Are employees who take carer's leave protected from unfair treatment?
  8. 8.Do I have to pay employees who are taking time off to care for a sick relative?
  9. 9.How much time must I allow an employee to take to care for a sick relative?
  10. 10.Must I allow my staff time off during bad weather if they cannot get to work?
  11. 11.If I have to close my workplace or cancel staff transport because of bad weather and my staff cannot work, do I still have to pay them?

Bereavement leave

  1. 12.What are the proposed reforms to bereavement leave under the Employment Rights Bill?
  2. 13.How should I deal with staff who have suffered a bereavement?
  3. 14.What is parental bereavement leave?
  4. 15.Which members of staff are entitled to take parental bereavement leave?
  5. 16.Are agency workers entitled to take parental bereavement leave?
  6. 17.Are casual workers and freelancers entitled to take parental bereavement leave?
  7. 18.How much parental bereavement leave are employees entitled to take?
  8. 19.When can parental bereavement leave start and what is the deadline for taking it?
  9. 20.Does my employee need to give me notice of their intention to take parental bereavement leave?
  10. 21.How much notice must an employee give me of their intention to take parental bereavement leave?
  11. 22.Can I refuse a request for parental bereavement leave?
  12. 23.Once my employee has informed me of the start date of their parental bereavement leave, can they change or cancel it?
  13. 24.Does parental bereavement leave count as part of continuous service?
  14. 25.Which staff are entitled to statutory parental bereavement pay?
  15. 26.How much is statutory parental bereavement pay?
  16. 27.What written information must employees provide me with to claim statutory parental bereavement pay?
  17. 28.Can I refuse a request for Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay?
  18. 29.How and when should I pay staff on statutory parental bereavement leave?
  19. 30.How do I calculate an employee's normal weekly earnings in order to work out how much statutory parental bereavement leave pay to pay them?
  20. 31.What happens if my employee is off sick during their parental bereavement leave?
  21. 32.Should I offer enhanced parental bereavement pay?
  22. 33.If I offer enhanced parental bereavement pay, are staff entitled to statutory parental bereavement pay on top of this?
  23. 34.Can I recover parental bereavement leave payments from the government?
  24. 35.How do I recover parental bereavement pay payments from HMRC?
  25. 36.What records do I have to keep about statutory parental bereavement pay?
  26. 37.Am I allowed to contact a member of staff or ask them to do any work during their parental bereavement leave?
  27. 38.What should I do if an employee wishes to extend their parental bereavement leave?
  28. 39.Does an employee continue to accrue holiday and other entitlements during parental bereavement leave?
  29. 40.Is an employee entitled to return to the same job after taking a period of parental bereavement leave?
  30. 41.What should I do if an employee resigns whilst on parental bereavement leave?
  31. 42.What happens if my employee is on maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave or parental leave when the death or stillbirth happens?
  32. 43.Are employees allowed to add on a period of maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave or parental leave after taking a period of parental bereavement leave?

Neonatal Care Leave

  1. 44.What is neonatal care leave?
  2. 45.Who can take neonatal care leave?
  3. 46.What types of staff can take neonatal care leave?
  4. 47.What are the care conditions for taking neonatal care leave?
  5. 48.How much neonatal care leave are employees entitled to take?
  6. 49.When can my employee take neonatal care leave?
  7. 50.Must neonatal care leave be taken in one continuous block?
  8. 51.Does my employee need to give notice before taking neonatal care leave?
  9. 52.How much notice does my employee need to give before taking neonatal care leave?
  10. 53.What must be included in my employee’s notice to take neonatal care leave?
  11. 54.Can my employee take neonatal care leave for more than one child?
  12. 55.Is my employee entitled to neonatal care leave if the child dies?
  13. 56.Will taking neonatal care leave affect my employee’s maternity, paternity or other leave entitlement?
  14. 57.Is an employee returning to work from neonatal care leave entitled to the same job?
  15. 58.What are my employee’s rights during neonatal care leave?
  16. 59.Can I make my employee redundant during neonatal care leave?

Neonatal Care Pay

  1. 60.Who is entitled to neonatal care pay?
  2. 61.How much is neonatal care pay?
  3. 62.When is neonatal care pay payable?
  4. 63.Does my employee need to give notice to get neonatal care pay?
  5. 64.How much notice does my employee need to give to get neonatal care pay?
  6. 65.What must be included in my employee’s notice to get neonatal care pay?
  7. 66.Can I reclaim neonatal care payments from HMRC?
  8. 67.How do I recover neonatal care payments from HMRC?
  9. 68.Can employees on neonatal care pay do any work for me?
  10. 69.Can my employee accrue neonatal care pay for a week in which they work for another employer?
  11. 70.Can my employee accrue neonatal care pay for multiple children or multiple periods of care?

Time off for jury service, public duties and trade union activities

  1. 71.Do I have to let my staff take time off work for jury service?
  2. 72.How long is an employee allowed to take off for jury service?
  3. 73.Can I make my staff take annual leave to cover their time on jury service?
  4. 74.Can I stop my employee from going on jury service?
  5. 75.Can I dismiss my employee if they have been off work on jury service for a long time?
  6. 76.Do I have to pay my employees when they take time off work for jury service?
  7. 77.Do I have to allow a staff member who holds a public office time off work to perform their duties?
  8. 78.How much time off must I allow staff who are public office holders to take, in order to carry out their duties?
  9. 79.Do I have to pay public office holders who take time off work in order to carry out their public duties?
  10. 80.Do I have to allow a trade union member time off work for trade union activities?
  11. 81.Do I have to pay staff who take time off work for trade union activities?

Parental leave

  1. 82.What is parental leave and who can take it?
  2. 83.How much parental leave can an employee take at a time and how much notice must they give?
  3. 84.Can I refuse a request for parental leave?
  4. 85.Does parental leave count as part of continuous service?
  5. 86.Do I have to pay an employee who is on parental leave?
  6. 87.Does an employee continue to accrue holiday and other entitlements during parental leave?
  7. 88.Is an employee entitled to return to the same job after taking a period of parental leave?
  8. 89.If an employee returning from parental leave is entitled to return to the same job, what happens if the nature of their job has changed since they went away?
  9. 90.If an employee returning from parental leave is not automatically entitled to return to the same job, how do I decide what alternative is appropriate?
  10. 91.Are employees with more than one child entitled to take separate periods of parental leave for each child?
  11. 92.Are employees allowed to add on a period of parental leave after taking a period of maternity, paternity, adoption, parental bereavement leave or shared parental leave, in order to extend their total leave period?
  12. 93.Am I entitled to deduct parental leave that an employee took with a previous employer when working out how much of their allowance remains?
  13. 94.How can I check whether an employee has used up all or part of their parental leave allowance whilst working for a previous employer?

List of common disabilities

This list of common disabilities sets out conditions that are commonly regarded as disabilities. It includes those which always qualify as disabilities, no matter what the actual effects on the individual who suffers from them, and those conditions which are most commonly classed as disabilities, provided there is a substantial or long-term effect on the person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. This will help you to identify whether a member of your staff has, or may have, a disability. Guidance is available throughout Sparqa to assist you to ensure you do not treat people with disabilities unfairly and you look after their health and safety. You can also purchase this document as part of the Disciplinary toolkit .
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Employee notice of intention to take parental leave

Your employee can use this notice to tell you that they intend to take parental leave. Parental leave is a legal right for certain employees to take unpaid time off to care for their children at any time until the child is 18. It is not the same as shared parental leave which is available for parents around the birth (or adoption date) of their child.
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