128 Time off work to attend adoption appointments

128  Time off work to attend adoption appointments

(1)     After section 57ZI of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (as inserted by section 127) there is inserted—

“Adoption appointments

57ZJ Right to paid time off to attend adoption appointments

(1)     An employee who has been notified by an adoption agency that a child is to be, or is expected to be, placed for adoption with the employee alone is entitled to be permitted by his or her employer to take time off during the employee's working hours in order that he or she may attend by appointment at any place for the purpose of having contact with the child or for any other purpose connected with the adoption.

(2)     An employee who—

(a)     has been notified by an adoption agency that a child is to be, or is expected to be, placed for adoption with the employee and another person jointly, and

(b)     has elected to exercise the right to take time off under this section in connection with the adoption,

is entitled to be permitted by his or her employer to take time off during the employee's working hours in order that he or she may attend by appointment

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