Question follow-through · 22949
Maternity Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what role the Fair Work Agency will play in ensuring businesses observe best practice when granting their employees maternity leave.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what role the Fair Work Agency will play in ensuring businesses observe best practice when granting their employees maternity leave.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2025
Answer published
We are creating the Fair Work Agency to deliver a much-needed upgrade to enforcement of workers’ rights. The Fair Work Agency will work closely with the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), which already provides guidance for both employ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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