Request to Cancel a Period of Shared Parental Leave
This Request to Cancel a Period of Shared Parental Leave form should be used by employees to cancel a period of leave notice to take Shared Parental Leave. The new system of Shared Parental Leave (SPL) has been introduced in respect of children due on or after 5 April 2015 or due to be adopted on or after 5 April 2015. See also the other documents in the Shared Parental Leave suite of documents.
In order to take SPL, an employee must give the Company a written notice setting out the start and end dates of each period of SPL requested in that notice. The employee can cancel his or her proposed SPL following the submission of a period of leave notice, provided that he or she gives written notice to cancel the leave and makes clear what change he/she is seeking. Any variation/cancellation must be made at least eight weeks before the dates varied/cancelled begin.
A notice to cancel booked SPL will count as a further notification. Therefore if the employee had originally agreed the leave as part of their first notice to book SPL, cancelling the leave would count as a second notification, meaning that, unless the employer gave them more they would only have one more notification to use any remaining SPL.
If the employee has already used up all of his/her notifications, the employer is under no obligation to agree to cancel the leave but could still consider the request and decide whether it is reasonably practicable to grant it.
Instances where the employer proposes a variation/cancellation to leave, and the employee is agreeable, would not count as a further notification and this should be confirmed in writing.
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