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Parental leave postponement letter template

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Employers can use this Postponement of Parental Leave Letter to restrict employees from taking parental leave at a specific period because of the disruption that their absence would cause.

5 minute read • 1 May 2025
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Parental leave postponement letter

[Sender name]

[Sender address]

 

[date]

[Recipient name]

[Recipient address]

 

Dear [Recipient first name],

I write further to our [meeting/discussion] on [date], in which I confirmed to you that the organisation will be unable to grant your request for [date] parental leave for [name of child] from [date] to [date] due to [reason].

[At this meeting/during this discussion] I

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Employers may only delay a legitimate application for parental leave if they can demonstrate a significant impact on their operations. If a company delays an employee's request for parental leave, they must nonetheless permit the employee to take the same length of leave within six months of the initial request.

Additionally, when parental leave is scheduled to be taken as a consequence of a child's birth or adoption, employers are not permitted to delay it.

parental leave postponement letter template