Paternal leave about handbook HOT 8 CLOSED

Personally I'd hope to have parity between paternity and maternity leave but we should aim to have this explicitly made clear.

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I think having parity between paternity and maternity leave is a good idea, but I think this needs to be clearer, as I think it's a little unclear at the moment exactly how much leave you would actually get in either situation

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Yes, definitely agree. So far we have provided paternity leave to 2 members of the team. Let me clarify the details around this to let you know the route we've taken so far.

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Yea, there are guidelines on shared parental leave / pay on GOV UK too:

https://www.gov.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-pay

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Ah ok, I think the link you posted @RoryMacDonald makes a little bit more sense...I think maybe at the very least we can add the link to the handbook? For someone who doesn't know much about how paternal leave works in the UK that goes a little way to explaining it more

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So I think we need to update the handbook into a decent state, to reflect the various options around statutory. I'd also like to look at how we can clearly provide parity (as much as possible) for paternity and maternity.

I'll certainly be happy to investigate this when I'm back from holidays.

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I've created a small PR to try to clarify things: https://github.com/madetech/handbook/pull/81/files

Good to get some feedback on this.

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Going to close this. If we need to clarify or make anything clearer, please open a new issue :)

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