Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Bereavement) Bill

Key Points

• Extends shared parental leave and pay to bereavement situations where one or both parents has died.
• Allows one or both parents to take leave and receive pay under the shared parental leave framework during bereavement.
• Maintains the existing eligibility framework while adding bereavement-specific provisions (subject to the Bill’s details).
• Places duties on employers to administer the bereavement provisions within the shared parental leave system.
• A Private Members’ Bill currently at First Reading in the House of Commons; progress would depend on successive readings and stages if it advances.

Progress

The Bill is at the First Reading in the House of Commons. If it progresses, it would move to the Second Reading and further stages.