Dads taking extended parental leave
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Topic: Dads taking extended parental leave
Posted By: T_Rex
Subject: Dads taking extended parental leave
Date Posted: 10 June 2011 at 8:48am
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It works out that just the way the workload etc fits at work, that it makes lots of sense for me to take 50 weeks leave, rather than 52. Which gives us 2 spare weeks of extended leave that I want to transfer to DH, so he can take 2 weeks partners leave followed by 2 weeks of my extended leave when bub arrives. (My work is awesome and pays my full salary for the first 6 weeks of my leave, so it's no worries to have DH on no pay for a month seeing as our take-home pay is very similar).
Trouble is, all the forms indicate that although I can specify "from when the baby is born" for his partners leave, they seem to want specific start and end dates for his extended leave. I want it to be "for 2 weeks immediately following his period of partners leave". I'm planning just to submit the letters like that, but was wondering if anyone had tried it and whether or not they'd got away with it? Or have the powers that be come back and demanded dates? Thanks  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: CrazyCass
Date Posted: 10 June 2011 at 9:38am
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Haven't been in your situation (yet) but maybe they are meaning from the EDD? almost all forms that I've seen refer to that as 'birth date' until the baby is actually here there is no 100% way of knowing ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: deodora
Date Posted: 11 June 2011 at 11:03pm
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Hi
I understood that you couldn't both take the leave at the same time. So he could only take the 2 weeks after you went back. I wanted to split ours so that from 6 months I took 3 days per week and DH took 2 days per week but they told me it couldn't be used by two people during the same period even if it was on different days. However this was 2 years ago so it may be different now. |
Posted By: Tyrbear
Date Posted: 12 June 2011 at 8:26am
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I transferred my maternity leave to my DH last year and I from what I remember it's as deodora said you can't take it at the same time. He ended up taking the full 52 weeks and my work gave me leave without pay.
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Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 12 June 2011 at 9:13am
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The DOL labour website definitely says concurrent extended leave is fine so we should be sweet there. It might just be the paid component you cant have concurrently (which I'm keeping anyway). ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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