Taking time off to take care of sick children - usual approach?

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I head up a reasonably small company (8 employees). One of the team returned from mat leave before Christmas. She's had to leave work early (11am) and not come in on a couple of days because her baby has been ill.

How do most companies deal with this in terms of requiring people to take it from parental leave / holidays etc.?

I want to be fair and supportive to the person with the baby, but don't want to unknowingly set precedents or be unfair to the employees who don't have kids.

Appreciate your advice.
 
In my company it's allowed to work from home but of course you can only do this if you're not particularly busy. Otherwise we have to take it out of annual leave. Personally I would prefer if it was taken out of parental leave but that's unpaid. Perhaps ask the employee which she prefers. I don't think that either option is unfair to the other employees if it's normal coughs/colds a few days type thing. This type of thing just tends to happen especially if the baby is in the creche, they just pick up everything. and the creches and childminders have rules that the parents must pick the child up if it has a temperature.
 
She should probably be allowed force majeure leave (paid) for the remainder of the first day (you are allowed 3 days in one year, or 5 day in 3 years on a "rolling" year basis - part of a day qualifies as 1 day) but parental leave / annual leave for second & third days.
 
Leave for sick children

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I have two small children and if I have to take time off when they are sick, it comes out of my annual leave.
The company policy is that force majeure does not non-serious sickness like colds / flus etc.

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Where I work, it is taken from annual leave usually, unless you are able to work from home. but the company are OK with someone applying for parental leave, if they have had a bad run of it, and have used some of their annual leave, but still want a family vacation.

I don't know of any employer who allows paid leave in those circumstances.

If it a combination of annual leave and parental leave, you are not being unfair.
 
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