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Partners/Spouse - 6 months eligible service

 
 

Mrs B Smart
Smart’s Supermarket
21 Kowhai Street
Middleton

[day/month/year]

Dear Mrs Smart

I wish to notify you that I want to take parental leave.

I attach a copy of my spouse/partner Julie Brown’s medical certificate and her declaration that I am her spouse/partner and that I intend to share responsibility for looking after the baby.

Different leave options (insert applicable):

  1. I will take one weeks partner’s paternity leave in [date] around the time our baby is born

or

  1. I will take one weeks partner’s paternity leave in [date] around the time our baby is born, and then take paid parental leave (transferred from my spouse/partner to me) from [day/month/year] to [day/month/year].

Julie is also applying for parental leave from Green & Black Plumbers Limited, 13 Main Street, Middleton. She will take parental leave from [day/month/year] to [day/month/year].

The total leave we are applying for is no more than [14 or 52] weeks, excluding my one week’s partner’s paternity leave.

This page was last updated on: 17-Apr-2007 and is current.


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