Track maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave with custom leave types. Plan for extended absences on your team calendar and keep accurate records for payroll.
Understanding your employees' rights is the first step. TimeTally helps you record and track every type of parental leave against accurate entitlements.
Up to 52 weeks — 26 weeks Ordinary Maternity Leave plus 26 weeks Additional Maternity Leave.
Statutory Maternity Pay is paid for up to 39 weeks for eligible employees.
Up to 2 weeks of leave. From April 2024, this can be taken at any point in the first year.
Statutory Paternity Pay is paid at the same weekly rate as SMP.
Parents can share up to 50 weeks of leave and 37 weeks of pay between them.
Allows flexible arrangements — both parents can be off at the same time.
Need to calculate holiday entitlement? Employees on maternity or paternity leave continue to accrue annual leave. Use our free UK holiday entitlement calculator to work out accrued leave during parental absence.
TimeTally lets you create unlimited custom leave types, so you can set up dedicated types for maternity leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, and adoption leave. Each type gets its own colour on the team calendar, making it easy to distinguish parental leave from other absence types.
Colour-coded by type
Maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave each get a distinct colour on the calendar
Set allowances per type
Configure the correct entitlement for each parental leave type to match statutory requirements
KIT days tracking
Create a separate type for Keeping in Touch days during maternity leave
Maternity and paternity leave can span weeks or months. The team calendar gives your entire organisation visibility over upcoming parental leave so you can arrange cover, redistribute work, and plan recruitment well in advance. See parental leave alongside annual leave, sick leave, and all other absence types in one view.
See extended parental leave periods stretching across the calendar for long-term planning
Know exactly when parental leave starts and ends so you can arrange temporary cover
See when employees are due back so you can prepare for their return to work
Check team availability and parental leave schedules from anywhere via the iOS app
If any of these sound familiar, you need a dedicated system for managing parental leave.
Maternity leave spans months but your spreadsheet only shows the current week. Teams are caught off guard when cover is needed.
Employees on parental leave continue to accrue annual leave. Without tracking, they return to disputes about their remaining entitlement.
Splitting leave between two parents is complex. Without a system to track who is taking which weeks, errors and misunderstandings are common.
Keeping in Touch days during maternity leave are allowed but not tracked. This creates payroll headaches and compliance gaps.
The return date arrives and nobody has planned the handover back. Work piles up and the returning employee feels overwhelmed.
SMP, SPP, and ShPP all have different rates and qualifying criteria. Inaccurate leave records lead to incorrect pay calculations.
Everything you need to manage parental leave and track hours
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Parental leave tracking
Maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption
Team calendar view
See who's off at a glance
All leave types included
Annual leave, sick, TOIL, and more
Timesheet tracking included
No extra charge
TimeTally lets you create custom leave types for maternity leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, and adoption leave. Each type has its own colour, allowance, and approval settings. When an employee goes on parental leave, you record it against the relevant type and it appears on the team calendar so the whole organisation can plan accordingly.
Eligible employees in the UK are entitled to up to 52 weeks of maternity leave — 26 weeks of Ordinary Maternity Leave followed by 26 weeks of Additional Maternity Leave. Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) is paid for up to 39 weeks. Employees must give at least 15 weeks' notice before the expected week of childbirth.
Eligible employees can take up to 2 weeks of statutory paternity leave. This can be taken as one week or two consecutive weeks, but not as individual days. Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) is paid at the same rate as SMP. From April 2024, paternity leave can be taken at any point in the first year after birth or adoption.
Yes. Create a 'Shared Parental Leave' custom leave type in TimeTally. Shared Parental Leave allows eligible parents to share up to 50 weeks of leave and up to 37 weeks of pay between them. TimeTally helps you track which weeks each parent is taking off so the team can plan ahead.
The team calendar in TimeTally lets you see extended absences months in advance. When maternity or paternity leave is recorded, it appears across the full date range on the calendar. This helps managers arrange cover, redistribute workload, and plan for the employee's eventual return.
TimeTally tracks the leave period and shows when the employee is due back. You can see the return date on the team calendar and plan accordingly. For keeping in touch (KIT) days during maternity leave, you can record these separately using a custom leave type.
