Your Rights While on Parental Leave: What Continues and What Pauses
What keeps running during family leave: full holiday accrual, the pension asymmetry in your favour, and the 18-month redundancy shield.
Unpaid Parental Leave: The 18-Week Pot Nobody Uses
18 weeks per child, now from day one: the notice maths, the postponement rule, and the summer-holidays play most parents never use.
Adoption Pay and Leave: The Rules and the Primary Adopter Choice
52 weeks from day one, 39 weeks of pay, and the primary-adopter choice that decides how much enhanced pay the household captures.
Paternity Leave and Pay: The New Day-One Right
Day-one paternity leave from April 2026, two splittable weeks in the first year, and why the pay tests create a two-tier system.
Maternity Allowance: Who Qualifies and How to Get the Full Rate
The SMP safety net: the 26-of-66 work test, the £30 earnings test, and the Class 2 top-up that turns £27 a week into £194.32.
Maternity Pay and Leave: The Two Systems, Explained Properly
52 weeks of leave from day one, 39 weeks of pay with two tests, the pay-rise reference window, and 18 months of redundancy protection.
Shared Parental Leave, Explained: Eligibility, Pay and the Arithmetic
Split up to 50 weeks of leave and 37 weeks of pay at £194.32: the two tests, the curtailment mechanic, and the booking rules in one place.
Neonatal Care Leave and Pay: UK Rules and Worked Examples
Up to 12 extra weeks of leave and £194.32 a week when a baby needs neonatal care: eligibility, the two notice tiers, and worked examples.
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