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PRACTICE NOTES
FORTHCOMING CHANGE:
Agricultural Minimum Wage rates are ordinarily reviewed each year by the Agricultural Advisory Panel for Wales (the Panel). As the recruitment of a new Chair is still underway, the Panel has not been able to finalise an Agricultural Wages Order for 2026. Accordingly, from 1 April 2026 the rates set out in the Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order 2025, SI 2025/293, will continue to apply, except where superseded by changes to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) or National Living Wage (NLW). This Practice Note will be updated to reflect any amendments introduced by the Agricultural Wages Order for 2026 once it is made.
FORTHCOMING CHANGE:
Relevant provisions (not yet in force) of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 will create a new scheme of apprenticeships in Wales, replacing the current regime under Chapter 1 of the
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Parental leave
Parental leave (meaning unpaid parental leave, and not to be confused with Shared Parental Leave) is regulated by the Maternity and Parental Leave etc Regulations 1999 (MAPLE Regs 1999), SI 1999/3312.
The default position under the MAPLE Regs 1999, SI 1999/3312, Sch 2, requires employees to:
give notice of their intention to take parental leave, specifying the dates the leave will begin and end; and
give at least 21 days’ notice of the date on which the parental leave is to start.
MAPLE Regs 1999, SI 1999/3312, Sch 2, also sets out that the minimum period of leave that can be taken at any one time is a week, and that leave must be taken in weekly blocks, not individual days (assuming the child in question is not disabled)...
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