Employee circumstances that affect payment of Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay
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What to do when an employee leaves, is reinstated, has a break in employment, works for someone else, is sick or goes abroad.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
What to do when an employee leaves, is reinstated, has a break in employment, works for someone else, is sick or goes abroad. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Employees furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS)
- Employee earnings affected by a backdated pay rise
- Employee does not qualify for Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay: PAYE settlement agreements
- Salary sacrifice
- Foster carers
- Stillbirth
- More than one child dies
- Employee dies
- Employee leaves job before Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay is taken
- Reinstatement after dismissal
- Reinstatement after armed forces service
- Break in employment
- Trade disputes or industrial action
- Non-cash payments
- Employee goes abroad
- Employee is not returning to work
Source and licence
Department for Business and Trade
AttributionDepartment for Business and Trade, ‘Employee circumstances that affect payment of Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay’ (updated 6 April 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026