Explanatory Memorandum

Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006

2006 No. 1947

Background and Policy Objectives

4.The Order is designed to extend leave and pay entitlements for working parents of new-born or newly-adopted children; to permit the widening of the existing right to request flexible working; to provide a power to alter annual leave entitlements; and to allow a one-off increase in the maximum amount of a week’s pay for the purposes of certain calculations.