Children and Families Bill (HC Bill 5)

(2) In section 171ZC (further provision as to entitlement to statutory paternity
pay)—

(a) in subsection (1) (requirement to give notice), for the words from “only
if” to the end there is substituted “only if he gives the person who will
5be liable to pay it notice of the week or weeks in respect of which he
expects there to be liability to pay him statutory paternity pay.”;

(b) after subsection (1) there is inserted—

“(1A) Regulations may provide for the time by which notice under
subsection (1) is to be given.”

(3) 10In section 171ZE (rate and period of statutory paternity pay)—

(a) in subsection (2) (period of pay), for the words from “be payable” to the
end there is substituted “be payable in respect of—

“(a)(a)such week within the qualifying period, or

(b) such number of weeks, not exceeding the prescribed
15number of weeks, within the qualifying period,

as he may choose in accordance with regulations.”;

(b) after subsection (2) there is inserted—

“(2A) Provision under subsection (2)(b) is to secure that the
prescribed number of weeks is not less than two.”;

(c) 20after subsection (2A) (as inserted by paragraph (b)) there is inserted—

“(2B) Regulations under subsection (2) may permit a person entitled
to receive statutory paternity pay to choose to receive such pay
in respect of non-consecutive periods each of which is a week or
a number of weeks.”

(4) 25In section 176 (Parliamentary control of subordinate legislation), in subsection
(1) (affirmative procedure), in paragraph (a), after “section 171ZE(1)” there is
inserted “or (2)(b)”.

94 Rate of statutory adoption pay

(1) In section 171ZN of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992
30(rate and period of statutory adoption pay)—

(a) subsection (1) is repealed;

(b) after subsection (2C) (inserted by section 90(6)) there is inserted—

“(2D) Statutory adoption pay shall be payable to a person—

(a) at the earnings-related rate, in respect of the first 6
35weeks in respect of which it is payable; and

(b) at whichever is the lower of the earnings-related rate
and such weekly rate as may be prescribed, in respect of
the remaining portion of the adoption pay period.

(2E) The earnings-related rate is a weekly rate equivalent to 90 per
40cent of a person’s normal weekly earnings for the period of 8
weeks ending with the week in which the person is notified that
the person has been matched with a child for the purposes of
adoption.

(2F) The weekly rate prescribed under subsection (2D)(b) must not
45be less than the weekly rate of statutory sick pay for the time
being specified in section 157(1) or, if two or more such rates are

for the time being so specified, the higher or highest of those
rates.”;

(c) in subsection (7), for “subsection (2)” there is substituted “subsections
(2) and (2D)”.

(2) 5In section 176 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992
(Parliamentary control of subordinate legislation), in subsection (1)
(affirmative procedure), in paragraph (a), the entry for section 171ZN(1) is
repealed.

95 Abolition of additional paternity leave and additional statutory paternity pay

(1) 10In Part 8 of the Employment Rights Act 1996, sections 80AA and 80BB
(entitlement to additional paternity leave: birth and adoption) are repealed.

(2) In Part 12ZA of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,
sections 171ZEA to 171ZEE (additional statutory paternity pay: birth and
adoption) are repealed.

15Further amendments

96 Further amendments

(1) Schedule 7 (which contains further amendments relating to statutory rights to
leave and pay) has effect.

(2) A reference to ordinary statutory paternity pay in an instrument or document
20made before the commencement of paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 7 is to be
read, in relation to any time after that commencement, as a reference to
statutory paternity pay.

(3) A reference to statutory paternity pay in an enactment (including an enactment
amended by this Act) or in an instrument or document is to be read, in relation
25to any time that falls—

(a) after the commencement of paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 1 to the
Work and Families Act 2006, and

(b) before the commencement of paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 7,

as a reference to ordinary statutory paternity pay.

(4) 30Subsection (3) does not apply to the extent that a reference to statutory
paternity pay is a reference to additional statutory paternity pay.

Part 7 Time off work: ante-natal care etc

97 Time off work to accompany to ante-natal appointments

(1) After section 57ZD of the Employment Rights Act 1996 there is inserted—

5“Accompanying to ante-natal appointments

57ZE Right to time off to accompany to ante-natal appointment

(1) An employee who has a qualifying relationship with a pregnant
woman or her expected child is entitled to be permitted by his or her
employer to take time off during the employee’s working hours in
10order that he or she may accompany the woman when she attends by
appointment at any place for the purpose of receiving ante-natal care.

(2) In relation to any particular pregnancy, an employee is not entitled to
take time off for the purpose specified in subsection (1) on more than
two occasions.

(3) 15On each of those occasions, the maximum time off during working
hours to which the employee is entitled is six and a half hours.

(4) An employee is not entitled to take time off for the purpose specified in
subsection (1) unless the appointment is made on the advice of a
registered medical practitioner, registered midwife or registered nurse.

(5) 20Where the employer requests the employee to give the employer a
declaration signed by the employee, the employee is not entitled to take
time off for the purpose specified in subsection (1) unless the employee
gives that declaration (which may be given in electronic form).

(6) The employee must state in the declaration—

(a) 25that the employee has a qualifying relationship with a pregnant
woman or her expected child,

(b) that the employee’s purpose in taking time off is the purpose
specified in subsection (1),

(c) that the appointment in question is made on the advice of a
30registered medical practitioner, registered midwife or
registered nurse, and

(d) the date and time of the appointment.

(7) A person has a qualifying relationship with a pregnant woman or her
expected child if—

(a) 35the person is the husband or civil partner of the pregnant
woman,

(b) the person, being of a different sex or the same sex, lives with
the woman in an enduring family relationship but is not a
relative of the woman,

(c) 40the person is the father of the expected child,

(d) the person is a parent of the expected child by virtue of section
42 or 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008,
or

(e) the person is a potential applicant for a parental order under
section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
in respect of the expected child.

(8) For the purposes of subsection (7) a relative of a person is the person’s
5parent, grandparent, sister, brother, aunt or uncle.

(9) The references to relationships in subsection (8)—

(a) are to relationships of the full blood or half blood or, in the case
of an adopted person, such of those relationships as would exist
but for the adoption, and

(b) 10include the relationship of a child with the child’s adoptive, or
former adoptive, parents,

but do not include any other adoptive relationships.

(10) For the purposes of subsection (7)(e) a person (“A”) is a potential
applicant for a parental order under section 54 of the Human
15Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 in respect of an expected child
only if—

(a) A intends to apply, jointly with another person (“B”), for such
an order in respect of the expected child within the time allowed
by section 54(3),

(b) 20the expected child is being carried by the pregnant woman as a
result of such procedure as is described in section 54(1)(a),

(c) the requirement in section 54(1)(b) is satisfied by reference to A
or B,

(d) A and B would satisfy section 54(2) if they made an application
25under section 54 at the time that A seeks to exercise the right
under this section, and

(e) A expects that A and B will satisfy the conditions in section
54(2), (4), (5) and (8) as regards the intended application.

(11) The references in this section to a registered nurse are references to a
30registered nurse—

(a) who is also registered in the Specialist Community Public
Health Nurses Part of the register maintained under article 5 of
the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 (S.I. 2002/253S.I. 2002/253), and

(b) whose entry in that Part of the register is annotated to show that
35the nurse holds a qualification in health visiting.

(12) For the purposes of this section the working hours of an employee are
to be taken to be any time when, in accordance with the employee’s
contract of employment, the employee is required to be at work.

57ZF Complaint to employment tribunal

(1) 40An employee may present a complaint to an employment tribunal that
his or her employer has unreasonably refused to let him or her take
time off as required by section 57ZE.

(2) An employment tribunal may not consider a complaint under this
section unless it is presented—

(a) 45before the end of the period of three months beginning with the
day of the appointment in question, or

(b) within such further period as the tribunal considers reasonable
in a case where it is satisfied that it was not reasonably

practicable for the complaint to be presented before the end of
that period of three months.

(3) Sections 207A(3) and 207B apply for the purposes of subsection (2)(a).

(4) Where an employment tribunal finds a complaint under subsection (1)
5well-founded, it—

(a) must make a declaration to that effect, and

(b) must order the employer to pay to the employee an amount
determined in accordance with subsection (5).

(5) The amount payable to the employee is—

10A x B x 2

where—

(a) A is the appropriate hourly rate for the employee, and

(b) B is the number of working hours for which the employee
would have been entitled under section 57ZE to be absent if the
15time off had not been refused.

(6) The appropriate hourly rate, in relation to an employee, is the amount
of one week’s pay divided by the number of normal working hours in
a week for that employee when employed under the contract of
employment in force on the day when the time off would have been
20taken.

(7) But where the number of normal working hours differs from week to
week or over a longer period, the amount of one week’s pay shall be
divided instead by—

(a) the average number of normal working hours calculated by
25dividing by twelve the total number of the employee’s normal
working hours during the period of twelve weeks ending with
the last complete week before the day on which the time off
would have been taken, or

(b) where the employee has not been employed for a sufficient
30period to enable the calculation to be made under paragraph (a),
a number which fairly represents the number of normal
working hours in a week having regard to such of the
considerations specified in subsection (8) as are appropriate in
the circumstances.

(8) 35The considerations referred to in subsection (7)(b) are—

(a) the average number of normal working hours in a week which
the employee could expect in accordance with the terms of the
employee’s contract, and

(b) the average number of normal working hours of other
40employees engaged in relevant comparable employment with
the same employer.

Accompanying to ante-natal appointments: agency workers

57ZG Right to time off to accompany to ante-natal appointment: agency
workers

(1) An agency worker who has a qualifying relationship with a pregnant
5woman or her expected child is entitled to be permitted, by the
temporary work agency and the hirer, to take time off during the
agency worker’s working hours in order that he or she may accompany
the woman when she attends by appointment at any place for the
purpose of receiving ante-natal care.

(2) 10In relation to any particular pregnancy, an agency worker is not
entitled to take time off for the purpose specified in subsection (1) on
more than two occasions.

(3) On each of those occasions, the maximum time off during working
hours to which the agency worker is entitled is six and a half hours.

(4) 15An agency worker is not entitled to take time off for the purpose
specified in subsection (1) unless the appointment is made on the
advice of a registered medical practitioner, registered midwife or
registered nurse.

(5) Where the temporary work agency or the hirer requests the agency
20worker to give that person a declaration signed by the agency worker,
the agency worker is not entitled to take time off for the purpose
specified in subsection (1) unless the agency worker gives that
declaration (which may be given in electronic form).

(6) The agency worker must state in the declaration—

(a) 25that the agency worker has a qualifying relationship with a
pregnant woman or her expected child,

(b) that the agency worker’s purpose in taking time off is the
purpose specified in subsection (1),

(c) that the appointment in question is made on the advice of a
30registered medical practitioner, registered midwife or
registered nurse, and

(d) the date and time of the appointment.

(7) A person has a qualifying relationship with a pregnant woman or her
expected child if—

(a) 35the person is the husband or civil partner of the pregnant
woman,

(b) the person, being of a different sex or the same sex, lives with
the woman in an enduring family relationship but is not a
relative of the woman,

(c) 40the person is the father of the expected child,

(d) the person is a parent of the expected child by virtue of section
42 or 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008,
or

(e) the person is a potential applicant for a parental order under
45section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
in respect of the expected child.

(8) For the purposes of subsection (7) a relative of a person is the person’s
parent, grandparent, sister, brother, aunt or uncle.

(9) The references to relationships in subsection (8)—

(a) are to relationships of the full blood or half blood or, in the case
of an adopted person, such of those relationships as would exist
but for the adoption, and

(b) 5include the relationship of a child with the child’s adoptive, or
former adoptive, parents,

but do not include any other adoptive relationships.

(10) For the purposes of subsection (7)(e) a person (“A”) is a potential
applicant for a parental order under section 54 of the Human
10Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 in respect of an expected child
only if—

(a) A intends to apply, jointly with another person (“B”), for such
an order in respect of the expected child within the time allowed
by section 54(3),

(b) 15the expected child is being carried by the pregnant woman as a
result of such procedure as is described in section 54(1)(a),

(c) the requirement in section 54(1)(b) is satisfied by reference to A
or B,

(d) A and B would satisfy section 54(2) if they made an application
20under section 54 at the time that A seeks to exercise the right
under this section, and

(e) A expects that A and B will satisfy the conditions in section
54(2), (4), (5) and (8) as regards the intended application.

(11) The references in this section to a registered nurse are references to a
25registered nurse—

(a) who is also registered in the Specialist Community Public
Health Nurses Part of the register maintained under article 5 of
the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 (S.I. 2002/253S.I. 2002/253), and

(b) whose entry in that Part of the register is annotated to show that
30the nurse holds a qualification in health visiting.

(12) For the purposes of this section the working hours of an agency worker
are to be taken to be any time when, in accordance with the terms under
which the agency worker works temporarily for and under the
supervision and direction of the hirer, the agency worker is required to
35be at work.

57ZH Complaint to employment tribunal: agency workers

(1) An agency worker may present a complaint to an employment tribunal
that the temporary work agency has unreasonably refused to let him or
her take time off as required by section 57ZG.

(2) 40An agency worker may present a complaint to an employment tribunal
that the hirer has unreasonably refused to let him or her take time off as
required by section 57ZG.

(3) An employment tribunal may not consider a complaint under
subsection (1) or (2) unless it is presented—

(a) 45before the end of the period of three months beginning with the
day of the appointment in question, or

(b) within such further period as the tribunal considers reasonable
in a case where it is satisfied that it was not reasonably

practicable for the complaint to be presented before the end of
that period of three months.

(4) Sections 207A(3) and 207B apply for the purposes of subsection (3)(a).

(5) Where an employment tribunal finds a complaint under subsection (1)
5or (2) well-founded, it—

(a) must make a declaration to that effect, and

(b) must order the payment to the agency worker of an amount
determined in accordance with subsection (7).

(6) Where the tribunal orders that payment under subsection (5) be made
10by the temporary work agency and the hirer, the proportion of that
amount payable by each respondent is to be such as may be found by
the tribunal to be just and equitable having regard to the extent of each
respondent’s responsibility for the infringement to which the
complaint relates.

(7) 15The amount payable to the agency worker is—

A x B x 2

where—

(a) A is the appropriate hourly rate for the agency worker, and

(b) B is the number of working hours for which the agency worker
20would have been entitled under section 57ZG to be absent if the
time off had not been refused.

(8) The appropriate hourly rate, in relation to an agency worker, is the
amount of one week’s pay divided by the number of normal working
hours in a week for that agency worker in accordance with the terms
25under which the agency worker works temporarily for and under the
supervision and direction of the hirer that are in force on the day when
the time off would have been taken.

(9) But where the number of normal working hours during the assignment
differs from week to week or over a longer period, the amount of one
30week’s pay shall be divided instead by the average number of normal
working hours calculated by dividing by twelve the total number of the
agency worker’s normal working hours during the period of twelve
weeks ending with the last complete week before the day on which the
time off would have been taken.

57ZI 35Agency workers: supplementary

(1) Without prejudice to any other duties of the hirer or temporary work
agency under any enactment or rule of law, sections 57ZG and 57ZH do
not apply where the agency worker—

(a) has not completed the qualifying period, or

(b) 40pursuant to regulation 8(a) or (b) of the Agency Workers
Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/93S.I. 2010/93), is no longer entitled to the
rights conferred by regulation 5 of those Regulations.

(2) Nothing in sections 57ZG and 57ZH imposes a duty on the hirer or
temporary work agency beyond the original intended duration, or
45likely duration, of the assignment, whichever is the longer.

(3) Sections 57ZG and 57ZH do not apply where sections 57ZE and 57ZF
apply.

(4) In this section and sections 57ZG and 57ZH the following have the
same meaning as in the Agency Workers Regulations 2010—

• 5“agency worker”;

• “assignment”;

• “hirer”;

• “qualifying period”;

• “temporary work agency”.”

(2) 10In the Employment Rights Act 1996—

(a) in section 47C (right not to be subject to detriment: leave for family
reasons), in subsection (2) (prescribed reasons), after paragraph (a)
there is inserted—

“(aa) time off under section 57ZE,”;

(b) 15in section 99 (being regarded as unfairly dismissed: leave for family
reasons), in subsection (3) (prescribed kinds of reasons), after
paragraph (a) there is inserted—

“(aa) time off under section 57ZE,”;

(c) in section 225 (the calculation date in finding a week’s pay), after
20subsection (3) there is inserted—

“(3A) Where the calculation is for the purposes of section 57ZF, the
calculation date is the day of the appointment.”

98 Time off work to attend adoption appointments

(1) After section 57ZI of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (inserted by section 97)
25there is inserted—

“Adoption appointments

57ZJ Right to paid time off to attend adoption appointments

(1) An employee who has been notified by an adoption agency that a child
is to be, or is expected to be, placed for adoption with the employee
30alone is entitled to be permitted by his or her employer to take time off
during the employee’s working hours in order that he or she may
attend by appointment at any place for the purpose of having contact
with the child or for any other purpose connected with the adoption.

(2) An employee who—

(a) 35has been notified by an adoption agency that a child is to be, or
is expected to be, placed for adoption with the employee and
another person jointly, and

(b) has elected to exercise the right to take time off under this
section in connection with the adoption,

40is entitled to be permitted by his or her employer to take time off during
the employee’s working hours in order that he or she may attend by
appointment at any place for the purpose of having contact with the
child or for any other purpose connected with the adoption.

(3) An employee may not make an election for the purposes of subsection
45(2)(b) if—

(a) the employee has made an election for the purposes of section
57ZL(1)(b) in connection with the adoption, or

(b) the other person with whom the child is to be, or is expected to
be, placed for adoption has made an election for the purposes of
5subsection (2)(b) or section 57ZN(2)(b) in connection with the
adoption.

(4) An employee is not entitled to take time off under this section on or
after the date of the child’s placement for adoption with the employee.

(5) In relation to any particular adoption, an employee is not entitled to
10take time off under this section on more than five occasions.

(6) On each of those occasions, the maximum time off during working
hours to which the employee is entitled is six and a half hours.

(7) An employee is not entitled to take time off under this section unless
the appointment has been arranged by or at the request of the adoption
15agency which made the notification described in subsection (1) or
(2)(a).

(8) An employee is not entitled to take time off under subsection (1) unless,
if the employer requests it, the employee gives the employer a
document showing the date and time of the appointment in question
20and that it has been arranged as described in subsection (7).

(9) An employee is not entitled to take time off under subsection (2) unless,
if the employer requests it, the employee gives the employer—

(a) a declaration signed by the employee stating that the employee
has made an election for the purposes of subsection (2)(b) in
25connection with the adoption, and

(b) a document showing the date and time of the appointment in
question and that it has been arranged as described in
subsection (7).

(10) A document or declaration requested under subsection (8) or (9) may
30be given in electronic form.

(11) In cases where more than one child is to be, or is expected to be, placed
for adoption with an employee as part of the same arrangement, this
section has effect as if—

(a) the purposes specified in subsections (1) and (2) were the
35purpose of having contact with any one or more of the children
and any other purpose connected with any of the adoptions that
are part of the arrangement;

(b) the references in subsections (2)(b) and (9)(a) to the adoption
were references to all of the adoptions that are part of the
40arrangement;

(c) the references in subsection (3) to the adoption were references
to any of the adoptions that are part of the arrangement;

(d) the reference in subsection (4) to the date of the child’s
placement for adoption were a reference to the date of
45placement of the first child to be placed as part of the
arrangement;