How the Paid Parental Leave scheme works for employers

It’s up to your employee to apply for Parental Leave Pay through us and work out leave arrangements with you.

The Paid Parental Leave scheme doesn’t change your employee’s existing leave entitlements or give them a new entitlement to leave.

About Parental Leave Pay payments

Your employee may ask you for help to understand how they can take their Parental Leave Pay and how it interacts with their existing leave entitlements.

Employer’s role in the scheme

As an employer, you may have to provide Parental Leave Pay to your employee depending on their circumstances.

Information employees need to give us

For your employee to get Parental Leave Pay, we need information from them.

Stillbirth or infant death

In cases of stillbirth or infant death, eligible employees will continue to get their Parental Leave Pay.

Resources

We have an Employer Toolkit and there are other resources available to support you.

How the scheme works

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