adoption leave

See the page in this guide on contact and work during adoption leave.

You can make enhanced adoption leave arrangements to attract and retain employees.

Statutory paid holiday cannot be taken at the same time as maternity/adoption leave.

An employee is not required to say in advance whether she intends to return after maternity or adoption leave.

My second point concerns parental, paternity and adoption leave.

Are not taking statutory adoption leave and pay.

Use our interactive tool to find out how to manage paternity and adoption leave and pay.

Find out more about adoption leave on Directgov (Open new window)

Often, the term parental leave includes maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

It also suggests how you could offer enhanced adoption leave and pay arrangements to attract and retain employees.

An employee can change the start date of their leave - see the page in this guide on when adoption leave can begin.

Let us take adoption leave, which appears in the text alongside maternity and paternity leave.

Bank Rhode Island, which has 300 employees, added four fully paid weeks of adoption leave in January.

The Government changed the rules on adoption leave for employees adopting a child expected to be placed with them on or after 5 October 2008.

Or you may wish to employ someone specifically to cover for another person who is on maternity, paternity or adoption leave.

Neither Amanda Lawson nor her husband, Matthew, had paid time off for their adoption leave.

She plans to take her new four weeks of paid adoption leave, and eight weeks of unpaid leave.

The directive also deals with the rights of adoptive parents in those Member States in which adoption leave is recognised.

See our guides on maternity leave and pay and adoption leave and pay.

Where employees are pregnant or on statutory maternity/adoption leave, you must provide the statement (even if not requested) regardless of their length of service.

Employees returning from maternity or adoption leave don't have to give any notice if returning at the end of their entitled leave.

You can fairly dismiss an employee you took on to replace an employee on adoption leave.

Special provisions apply if the mother or co-adopter dies during their maternity or adoption leave or pay period.

To qualify for statutory adoption leave (SAL), an employee must meet certain qualifying criteria.

For example during rest breaks, lunch breaks, holidays, sickness absence or maternity/paternity/adoption leave.