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Staff Record 2015/16 - Parental leave

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Staff Record 2015/16

Fields required from institutions in Wales

Parental leave


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Typefield
Short namePARLEAVE
Description

This field identifies whether any parental leave was taken by staff during the reporting year

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All staff (Optional)

Valid entries and labels
CodeLabel
1Maternity leave
2Additional paternity leave
3Adoption leave
4Shared parental leave
Notes

Code 1 'Maternity leave' should be used when Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) is paid to a female employee who has recently, or is about to, have a baby, who has been employed for approximately 9 months before the date the baby is due, and whose average earnings are above the current Lower Earnings Limit for Northern Ireland.

Code 2 'Additional paternity leave' can only be used if your child was due or placed for adoption before 2015-04-05. If your child was due or placed for adoption on or after 2015-04-05 code 4 'Shared parental leave' must be returned.

Code 3 'Adoption leave' should be used when Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP) is paid to employees who are adopting a child and are notified that they have been matched with a child or received official notification that they are eligible to adopt a child from abroad and who satisfy the qualifying conditions are entitled to a maximum of 39 weeks SAP.

Code 4 'Shared parental leave' should be used when statutory shared parental leave is given to parents where there is entitlement to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Maternity Allowance (MA) or Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP) and that has been brought to an end by the mother or adopter giving notice to curtail their maternity or adoption leave. The employee must be taking time off work to care for their child.

The introduction of shared parental leave means that some employees will, following the birth of their child, take a combination of different forms of leave. To enable higher education providers (HEPs) to return information in such a way that accurately reflects a person’s leave arrangement, a maximum of 2 occurrences can be returned.

Instances of parental leave that span across two reporting periods should be reported in both years.

The Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) has a number of resources relating to gathering information across the protected characteristics covered by the Equality Act 2010. These resources can be found at Equality Challenge Unit. If you have any further queries regarding equality monitoring, please email ECU at [email protected].

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Reason required

To monitor equal opportunities issues in the higher education sector and enable higher education providers (HEPs) to meet their obligations under the Equality Act 2010

Part of
Field length1
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences2
Schema components
Element: PARLEAVE
OwnerEquality Challenge Unit (ECU)
Version1.1
Date modified2016-02-25
Change management notesThe guidance has been updated to explicitly state that code 2 'Additional paternity leave' can only be used if your child was due or placed for adoption before 2015-04-05. If your child was due or placed for adoption on or after 2015-04-05 it code 4 'Shared parental leave' must be returned.

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