SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Statutory rights to leave and pay: further amendments

Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18)

38(1)Section 89 (effect of notice of termination: employments without normal working hours) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (3)(b) (effect of absence from work because of pregnancy etc during the period of notice)—

(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 (4) (certain payments during the period of notice treated as remuneration)—

(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,”.