Surrogacy: legal rights of parents and surrogates
Pay and leave
You and your partner may be eligible for adoption pay and leave and paternity pay and leave if you use a surrogate.
If you鈥檙e not eligible for paid leave, you may be able to take parental leave or annual leave.
Surrogates
Every pregnant employee has the right to 52 weeks鈥� maternity leave and to return to their job after this.
What a surrogate does after the child is born does not affect their right to maternity leave.