UK Employment Alert: New Right To Time Off To Accompany A Pregnant Woman To Antenatal Appointments

By and on October 16, 2014

From today, 1 October 2014, employees and agency workers who have a “qualifying relationship” with a pregnant woman or her expected child are entitled to take unpaid time off during working hours to accompany the woman to two antenatal appointments.

This new right supplements the existing right of pregnant women to paid time off for such appointments.

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