Our colleagues at Personnel Solutions shared some interesting information with us regarding Carers Leave Entitlement:

Employees who have caring responsibilities for a dependent will be able to request up to 1 week’s unpaid leave in a 12 month period. This entitlement has no qualifying period and will be available from day one of employment.

Requests can be made for the whole 4 weeks, or 1, 2, 3 weeks, or single days of half days.

Councils can refuse to allow the Employee to take specific dates due to business reasons but must provide a mutually agreed date within one month of the original request.

Failure by Councils to facilitate these requests would be a breach of statutory rights and could result in claims for Unfair/Constructive Dismissal, at an Employment Tribunal.

You can find more information on this on HMRC’s website here.

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