Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010

Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	...
Citation	SI 2010/1055
Territorial extent	England and Wales; Scotland; Northern Ireland
Status: Current legislation
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/1055) are a statutory instrument involving UK labour law, which introduced a basic right for mothers to transfer their right to unpaid leave to their partner ^[1] if the mother has returned to work in the last three months of her nine-month maternity leave. ^[2]

The measure was pushed by the Women and Equality minister Harriet Harman, but the opposition saw it as a mere electoral promise. ^[2]

Contents

The main provisions of the regulations are as follows.

• r 4, the employee must have (2) worked for 25 weeks and have the main responsibility, with the mother, for caring for the child (5) the mother must be entitled to maternity leave, pay or an allowance and have returned to work
• r 5, right arises between 20 and 52 weeks after birth, for a period of continuous leave between 2 and 26 weeks, after 8 weeks notice.
• r 6, notice, an employee declaration of intent to care, a mother declaration that she has returned to work must be given. (3) the employer can require the birth certificate and the mother’s employer’s contact details.
• r 7, variation before leave begins
• r 8, employer confirmation
• r 9, commencement
• rr 10-13, rights on mother’s death.

See also

• Child care in the United Kingdom
• Tax Credits and Child tax credit, Working tax credit
• Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/1060) r 2, the same statutory rate to maternity leave of [£128.73] applies.

References

1. Eligible for statutory government pay of £123 a week.
2. Mulholland, Hélène (28 January 2010). "Fathers to get six months' paternity leave". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 24 February 2024.

External links

• UK Statutory Instruments 2010 No. 1055
• Michelle Weldon-Johns, The Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010: a new dawn or more 'sound-bite' legislation?, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2011
• Louise Smith, Paternity pay and parental leave, Library House of Commons, 2010