With the new right to statutory shared parental leave and pay having come into force on 5 April, along with various other changes to family friendly leave and pay rights, the BIS has published a technical guidance document on adoption leave and pay to help employers understand the new rules now in force with the major changes being that adoption leave is now a right from Day 1, statutory adoption pay is enhanced to 90% of salary for the first six weeks, adoption leave and pay is available to the intended parents in surrogacy arrangements and ‘foster to adopt’ arrangements and adopters will be entitled to take time off work to attend adoption meetings. In addition, the BIS have updated the shared parental leave eligibility calculator on the GOV.UK website. The calculator is aimed at employees and shows them if they can get maternity, paternity or shared parental leave and how much pay they can get if they take leave.

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