SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 7Statutory rights to leave and pay: further amendments
37Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18)
1
Section 88 (liability of employer to pay employee during period of notice: employments with normal working hours) is amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1)(c) (liability to employee who is absent from work because of pregnancy etc)—
a
after “adoption leave,” there is inserted “shared parental leave,”;
b
for “ordinary or additional paternity leave” there is substituted “paternity leave”.
3
In subsection (2) (certain payments during the period of notice treated as meeting employer’s liability)—
a
for “ordinary statutory paternity pay, additional statutory paternity pay” there is substituted “statutory paternity pay”;
b
after “statutory adoption pay,” there is inserted “shared parental pay, statutory shared parental pay,”.