Employment law: family-friendly rights

This factsheet, produced by BVA's legal helpline provider, looks at rights relating to maternity and paternity leave and pay, shared parental leave and employment policies which can help give you flexibility to care for your dependants, after any leave following the birth, has ended.

What's inside? 

1. Maternity rights
2. Antenatal appointments
3. Sickness absence
4. Maternity leave
5. Notifying your employer
6. Returning to work
7. Keeping in touch days 
8. Maternity pay
9. Paternity leave
10. Shared parental leave
11. Adoption leave
12. Time off to care for dependents
13. Parental leave
14. Parental bereavement leave
15. Flexible working
16. Statutory carers leave
17. Pregnancy and maternity leave and redundancy 

Published: February 2025