17 Shared Parental The conversion of a Up to 50 n/a Leave (ShPL) mother’s/primary adopter’s weeks (for entitlement to ML/AL, to be biological shared by both parents, for mother and the purposes of caring for partner) newly born/adopted children Up to 52 weeks (in cases of adoption) 18 Shared Parental Days during which an 20 days n/a Leave in Touch employee on ShPL can, maximum (SPLIT) with prior management approval, attend work, undertake training or keep in touch with work developments through other means, without bringing the leave period to an end SPLIT days may be taken in addition to KIT days 19 Statutory Adoption Up to 39 26 weeks Pay (SAP) weeks service by the week the employee is matched with the adopted child/children 20 Statutory Maternity Up to 39 26 weeks Pay (SMP) weeks service by the 15th week before EWC 21 Statutory Shared up to 37 weeks 26 weeks Parental Pay service by (SSPP) the EWC or week the employee is matched with the adopted child/children 22 Surrogacy Unpaid time off for the Up to 2 n/a (SuL) intended parents in a appointments surrogacy arrangement to attend antenatal appointments
17 Shared Parental Leave (ShPL) The conversion of a mother’s/primary adopter’s entitlement to ML/AL, to be shared by both parents, for the purposes of caring for newly born/adopted children Up to 50 weeks (for biological mother and partner) Up to 52 weeks (in cases of adoption) n/a 18 Shared Parental Leave in Touch (SPLIT) Days during which an employee on ShPL can, with prior management approval, attend work, undertake training or keep in touch with work developments through other means, without bringing the leave period to an end SPLIT days may be taken in addition to KIT days 20 days maximum n/a 19 Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP) Up to 39 weeks 26 weeks service by the week the employee is matched with the adopted child/children 20 Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) Up to 39 weeks 26 weeks service by the 15th week before EWC 21 Statutory Shared Parental Pay (SSPP) up to 37 weeks 26 weeks service by the EWC or week the employee is matched with the adopted child/children 22 Surrogacy (SuL) Unpaid time off for the intended parents in a surrogacy arrangement to attend antenatal appointments Up to 2 appointments n/a
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