Who qualifies for OPL?

To qualify for OPL a person must be:

• An employee;

• Have at least 26 weeks’ service by the 15th week before the baby is due or the week the child is matched (or enters Great Britain in the case of an overseas adoption);

• Be earning at least £109 a week (2013-14);

• Be either the biological father, the mother’s husband or partner (including civil partner), the child’s adopter or the husband or partner (including civil partner) of the child’s adopter;

• Have or expect to have parental responsibility for the upbringing of the child.