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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Carer’s Leave Regulations 2024 No. 251
5.—(1) An employee who satisfies the conditions in regulation 4 is entitled to one week of carer’s leave during the relevant period.
(2) The minimum period of carer’s leave an employee may take is half a working day.
(3) The maximum period of carer’s leave an employee may take is one continuous week.
(4) Where an employee chooses to take carer’s leave it need not be taken on consecutive days.
(5) In this regulation “working day” means the period in which an employee is normally expected or required to work on the day the leave is to be taken.
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