The Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024

01 February 2024

The Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024, if enacted in their current form will make the following changes: –

• Employees will be able to take their paternity leave as 2 separate weeks rather than being required to take either just a single week or 2 consecutive weeks.
• The leave will be able to be taken at any time in the 52 weeks after the birth (rather than being limited to 56 days after the birth).
• Employees will only require to give 28 days’ notice of intention to take paternity leave (reduced from the 15^th week before the expected week of childbirth).

The regulations are expected to come into force in April 2024 at the same time as a variety of other family friendly legal changes previously highlighted to members, including Carers Leave, Flexible Working and Extension of Redundancy Protection to include pregnancy and a period of time following maternity, adoption and shared parental leave.

Please contact a member of the Legal & HR Team if you need to consider reviewing any policies in these areas.