Can an employer ask to see evidence of entitlement to parental leave?
An employer can ask to see evidence that the employee is the parent of a child or has parental responsibility for the child, that the child is below the age at which the right to parental leave ceases and, where relevant, that the child is entitled to disability living allowance. Evidence might take the form of the child’s birth certificate, papers confirming a child’s adoption or the date of placement for adoption, or in the case of a disabled child, a record of disability living allowance payments for the child. The employer’s request must be reasonable; it may not be reasonable for the employer to check on the employee’s entitlement on every occasion on which leave is asked for.
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