Paternity Leave

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An employer has granted an employee having twins an additional week of paid paternity leave (3 weeks), whilst at the same time offered all other employees taking paternity leave 2 weeks for having a single child. Can an employer offer different arrangements in this situation? The company's policy has been 2 weeks full time pay historically. There is no written company policy in place for employees to refer to. The statutory paternity leave guidance in the UK states that paternity leave relates to each 'pregnancy' and not the number of children being born. Should the company then be offering 3 weeks to all employees equally in this situation, or can arrangements be tailored on a case by case basis? I'd be interested to gauge opinion on this.

Purely my personal thoughts on the concept rather than advice on whether a company can/should do this.

I think it would be quite a mean spirited thing to start morning about, it's any an extra week. While it would be better for a company to have a clearly defined paternity leave policy that they stick to, practically an extra week for twins seems reasonable. I suspect it takes longer to find your feet and an extra pair of hands at home must be invaluable. Also most people with 2 kids would have had 4 weeks off overall so three as twins seems logical.

What the company should have done is 2 weeks paternity and 1 weeks additional annual leave and they wouldn't have caused this issue.

It seems petty to be honest getting worked up about an additional weeks paternity leave for twins. My god that family will need help and support with 2 babies!

I wouldn't kick off or fight this personally.

Wow only a complete dick would be annoyed that people with twins are getting a tiny bit more help with life!!!

FFS give your head a wobble

No idea on the legal implications but I think you'd be a complete knob to kick up a fuss about it.