The government has announced a new system of statutory parental rights to be introduced in 2015. Parents will be able to share the statutory leave and pay that is currently only available to mothers. Flexible parental leave can either be taken by each parent consecutively, or by both parents concurrently, as long as the combined amount of leave does not exceed the amount which is jointly available to the couple. Additional paternity leave will be abolished, and there will be no extension to the current statutory paternity rights. In addition the entitlement to unpaid parental leave will be extended from 13 to 18 weeks for each child from March 2013, and from 2015 each parent will be able to exercise this right for children up to the age of 18.
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