Employment Law Update
By Kate Palka
These changes apply where babies are born after 6 April 2024.
- Employees taking statutory paternity leave (and pay, if they are eligible) can now split their two weeks’ entitlement into two separate one-week blocks, rather than having to take them both together.
- They can also take their two weeks at any time within the first year after their child’s birth, rather than within only the first eight weeks after birth as previously required.
- Before taking leave, employees must now give employers 28 days’ notice for each week of leave, down from 15 weeks’ notice previously.
- However, they still need to give notice of their upcoming entitlement 15 weeks before the expected date of birth.
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