paternity leave when working shift hours?

[pinkfluffo]

My partner wants to take 2 weeks paternity leave. He works shift patterns 3 days on (11 hours each) 3 days off.
How does paternity leave work when its not normal mon-fri. Will he get allocated a certain amount of hours? Because say he takes 1st day of paternity leave on a certain day i.e the 3rd day of a shift pattern then surely he would lose out because he would have the next 3 days off anyway so would he have to use this as part of his 2 weeks? Just a bit confused.
He has asked his HR department and they are taking ages to get back to him so thought i would try and find out elsewhere. I have googled it also but dont seem to find anything relating to shift patterns. Anyone else has paternity leave on shift patterns?
Any help would be much appreciated.

[pinkfluffo]

Anyone?? :(

[redcrx]

try asking in law or in jobs and education

[notmuchtime]

As far as I am aware you partner would not loose out.

The way our HR department works it out is this.

If your working week is 40 hours, your paternity would be 2 weeks at 40 hours = 80 hours.

If the partner then works 4 day shifts of 10 hours he would have a total of 8 days off.

If the partner works shifts, this is still the same. It works out in hours and this should be the same for those who work part time also.

Other wise it would be unfair on those who work shifts or part time hours and it is against the law to treat part time or shift workers less favourably than full time workers- non shifts.
The same applies for training, interviews etc.

[pinkfluffo]

Thankyou. HR department still havent got back to him, how useless! Also i phoned an advice line but the guy confused me lol he didnt seem to know very much and i think was basically guessing :O

[meresborough]

hi i no there is a place called ACAS which gives on advice of employemnt issues. ithink the number is 08347474747. its in the pages. hope this can help?