SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Statutory rights to leave and pay: further amendments

Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18)

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Section 88 (liability of employer to pay employee during period of notice: employments with normal working hours) is amended as follows.

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In subsection (1)(c) (liability to employee who is absent from work because of pregnancy etc)—

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after “adoption leave,” there is inserted “ shared parental leave, ”;

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for “ordinary or additional paternity leave” there is substituted “ paternity leave ”.

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In subsection (2) (certain payments during the period of notice treated as meeting employer's liability)—

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for “ordinary statutory paternity pay, additional statutory paternity pay” there is substituted “ statutory paternity pay ”;

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after “statutory adoption pay,” there is inserted “ shared parental pay, statutory shared parental pay, ”.