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Our Guide to Managing Keeping in Touch (KIT) Days provides strategies for utilising KIT days during parental leave, benefiting employees and employers.
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Kit days, or "keeping in touch" days, are an important part of maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave policies. These are days where employees can return to work for up to 10 days during their leave period without it affecting their entitlement to leave or pay.
As a manager, it's important to understand how kit days work and how they can benefit both your organisation and your employees. Here are some key points to keep in mind:
Explain the policy to your employees
Ensure that your employees are aware of the kit day policy and how it works. It's important to be clear about how many kit days they are entitled to and what they can be used for.
Offer support and
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The purpose of a management guide to kit days is to provide employers and managers with information on how to effectively manage kit days for employees on maternity, paternity, or shared parental leave. The guide should cover topics such as what kit days are, how they work, how they affect an employee's entitlement to leave and pay, and what the employer's obligations and responsibilities are in relation to kit days.
By providing a management guide, employers can ensure that kit days are used effectively and appropriately, and that the process is clear and transparent for both employees and managers. The guide can also help to minimize any misunderstandings or disputes that may arise regarding the use of kit days, ensuring that both parties understand their rights and obligations.
Overall, a management guide to kit days can help to promote positive relationships between employers and employees on parental leave, and ensure that employees are able to stay connected with their work without negatively impacting their parental leave entitlements.
Yes. This template has been designed for organisations of all sizes, including small businesses, charities and growing employers. It follows UK employment law best practice and can be adapted to suit your organisation.
Our templates are developed with UK employment legislation, Acas guidance and HR best practice in mind and are reviewed and updated as relevant requirements change. However, every employment situation is different, so the template should be adapted to the circumstances and checked against the employee's contract and your organisation's procedures before use.
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Darryl Horn, Chartered HR Director
Darryl is a Chartered HR professional with over 25 years' experience in senior HR and employee relations roles.
He has extensive practical experience of managing parental and family processes and founded hrdocbox to provide businesses with practical, professionally developed HR resources grounded in UK employment law and best practice.
HRDocBox has been creating practical UK HR documents since 2009.
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