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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Statutory rights to leave and pay: further amendments

Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18)

37(1)Section 88 (liability of employer to pay employee during period of notice: employments with normal working hours) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1)(c) (liability to employee who is absent from work because of pregnancy etc)—

(a)after “adoption leave,” there is inserted “shared parental leave,”;

(b)for “ordinary or additional paternity leave” there is substituted “paternity leave”.

(3)In subsection (2) (certain payments during the period of notice treated as meeting employer’s liability)—

(a)for “ordinary statutory paternity pay, additional statutory paternity pay” there is substituted “statutory paternity pay”;

(b)after “statutory adoption pay,” there is inserted “shared parental pay, statutory shared parental pay,”.