Explanatory Notes

Children and Families Act 2014

2014 CHAPTER 6

13 March 2014

Commentary on Sections

Part 8 – Time Off Work: Ante-Natal Care Etc

Section 128: Time off work to attend adoption appointments
Section 57ZN: Right to paid time off to attend adoption appointments: agency workers

683.Section 57ZN makes provision for agency workers to take paid time off to attend adoption appointments that is equivalent to that for employees in section 57ZJ. Subsection (12) provides that for the purposes of this section, an agency worker’s working hours are any time when the agency worker is required to be at work in accordance with the terms under which the agency worker is working (temporarily) for the hirer.