What You Need to Know About Dependent(s) Leave!

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I hope you are having a positive employment rights week. 

This week we continue our series… looking in detail at the different types of paid and unpaid leave that you may be entitled to receive at work.  In this week’s episode …we take a look at the top seven things you need to know about  … if you want to take emergency time off to care for family and dependents… more commonly known as dependent leave.

Dependent leave is time off from work that you can legally take, to deal with an emergency involving a dependent.       A dependant could be a child, grandchild, spouse, a parent or anyone who would normally or reasonably rely on you for assistance. There is no legal amount of time off you can take, but your employer is expected to allow you enough time off to deal with the emergency. Legally, your employer does not have to pay you when you are off but your contract of employment should tell you how your employer’s dependent leave process works.

In this week’s episode, we look at the seven key pieces of employment rights information you need to know about dependent leave.

After listening to this week’s episode, if you feel you have been denied your dependent leave rights, the first thing you need to consider is submitting a complaint or a grievance to ask the employer to look at the issue.  To help you with this, included in the podcast notes for this episode are some grievance templates that you can use to help you write your letter.  Just scroll down to the bottom of the show notes where you’re listening to this podcast and press the ‘See More’ button, and you will see the live links that will take you to some helpful Grievance support templates and other information.

We hope you find something useful that you can work with in this week’s episode.  Remember to let others know we are here, by sharing our content and leaving us a review about the podcast on iTunes or anywhere else where you’re listening and where you can leave a review.   We’d love to know what you think.

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See you next week!

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Here’s a link to Grievance Template Letters to help you write your letter of complaint

Grievance template letters

 

Here’s a download giving you 15 key grievance actions you can follow to track how your employer deals with your complaint at work

15 Smart Grievance Actions

 

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