Sentences with phrase «statutory maternity»

Not only will you get statutory maternity pay, while you're on maternity leave, but some companies really value working parents and pay mums more than they're legally obliged too.

In it, she addresses the operational difficulties caused to employers by statutory maternity leave protections.

For reference, statutory maternity pay is available for 39 weeks per child.

Under the legislation, which applies to parents with babies born from April this year, women can opt to share all bar the first two weeks of their 52 weeks of maternity leave and 39 weeks of statutory maternity pay with their partners.

Female employees who experience a stillbirth after 24 weeks are entitled to up to 52 weeks statutory maternity leave and / or pay.

Maternity Allowance is a payment made by the government to women who do not qualify for Statutory Maternity Pay and worth looking into if you don't think you will be eligible for SMP.

To claim Statutory Maternity Leave and Pay, you must tell your employer that you're going on maternity leave and requesting maternity at least 15 weeks before the baby's due date.

Women who are currently eligible to receive statutory maternity pay (SMP) or maternity allowance will continue to be able to do so for 39 weeks, as they do currently.

The length of flexible parental leave will not exceed the balance of untaken maternity leave, and the amount of statutory flexible parental pay will not exceed the balance of untaken statutory maternity pay or maternity allowance available at the point at which the woman returned or commits to return to work.

The government should consider equalising statutory maternity pay and shared parental pay — to prevent SPL being a second - class option and encourage more fathers to use it.

The government had initially planned to extend statutory maternity pay (SMP) from 39 to 52 weeks at the same time as increasing paternity rights, which will allow parents to share up to six months parental leave after the baby's first six months.

Tip: You can't get Statutory Maternity Leave if you have a child through surrogacy - you could get unpaid parental leave instead.

Find out more about Statutory Maternity Pay, including when you need to tell your employer that you're pregnant.

The National Childcare Trust said the announcement on childcare was welcome, but complained that the government should be doing more to address statutory maternity and paternity pay, which is # 100 a week lower than the full - time minimum wage.

Acas provide useful advice on a range of factors relating to maternity leave, particularly statutory maternity pay, standard employee rights and antenatal care.

The current levels of basic statutory maternity, shared parental and adoption pay (i.e. after the first six weeks of leave), as well as statutory paternity pay, are frozen at # 139.58 per week for 2016/17.

• Statutory Pay Rates increase to # 145.18 per week for statutory maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental pay.

Additional Parental Leave was introduced by the coalition government in 2011, in which extra leave was given to employed fathers if the mother returned to work and was not claiming statutory maternity pay.

Mr Ali challenged the decision on the basis he was aware that female employees who transferred to Capita from Telefonica at the same time as him were entitled to 14 weeks» basic pay followed by 25 weeks statutory maternity pay.

One fundamental datum of the maternity leave system (whatever else may be contentious) is that during leave there is no continuing right to ordinary remuneration — that right is turned into a right to receive statutory maternity pay (SMP)(plus anything else the employer may have promised by contract).

You're entitled to a year of Statutory Maternity Leave from your job - no matter how long you've been working at the company.

The Office for National Statistics says average male income is now # 498 a week, compared to statutory maternity leave of # 112.75.

If you are pregnant you are entitled to up to 52 weeks of maternity leave, even if you do not qualify for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) or Maternity Allowance.

Fathers will be able to take up any Statutory Maternity Leave and Pay (ML & SMP) or Maternity Allowance (SMA) that their wife, partner or civil partner does not take — after she has been on leave for 26 weeks.

Under arrangements introduced in April 2011, you can now take up any Statutory Maternity Leave and Pay or Maternity Allowance (the latter is paid through the benefits system to mothers who don't qualify for maternity leave, for example if they are not employed, or haven't worked for their employer long enough) that your wife or partner does not take — but only after she has been on leave for 26 weeks.

You'll receive statutory paternity pay during the 39 weeks of her statutory maternity pay period.

There will be a new statutory payment for parents on flexible parental leave, with the same qualifying requirements that currently apply to statutory maternity and paternity pay.

extend the period of statutory maternity pay, maternity allowance and adoption pay initially from 26 to 39 weeks and subsequently to 52 weeks by the end of the next Parliament;

For those who aren't aware (probably the vast majority, seeming as Shared Parental Leave is relatively new)-- Shared Parental Leave allows me as the (birth) mother to «give» a portion or virtually all of my 52 weeks statutory maternity leave and 39 weeks statutory maternity pay, over to The Wife.

You may also be entitled to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) from your employer or Maternity Allowance from the Department for Work and Pensions.

The form enables a pregnant woman to claim for: Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) from her employer Maternity Allowance (MA) from Jobcentre Plus.

Some employers offer maternity benefits that are more generous than Statutory Maternity Pay.

Statutory Maternity Pay is the legal minimum your employer normally has to pay you while you're on maternity leave.

Around 232,000 households claim statutory maternity pay each year.

Two of the benefits which will only rise by 1 % as a result of the curb announced by George Osborne yesterday are maternity allowance and statutory maternity pay.

Statutory maternity pay is higher in the UK than the EU.

Chris Nicholson: The winter fuel allowance, statutory maternity pay, social housing.

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• He said the rule saying that if a women returns early to work part - time after maternity leave she loses all statutory maternity pay and rights would be abolished.

In the United Kingdom, statutory maternity pay (SMP) is granted for up to 39 weeks, and employers often supplement these benefits with occupational maternity pay.

Shared Parental Leave & Pay Statutory Maternity Leave (SML) and Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) has existed for mothers since the 1980s and seeks to help the expectant mother to stop work before and after the birth of her baby in the interests of her own and the baby's health.

Statutory Maternity Pay is for those who are pregnant and employed (Adoption Pay has similar rules for those adopting).

So, here's what you need to know so you can plan and budget accordingly: as of April 2017, statutory maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay will increase to # 140.98 per week.

[An employee must be eligible to take Statutory Maternity Leave (SML) or Statutory Adoption Leave (SAL), or be entitled to Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay or Maternity Allowance to be entitled to Shared Parental Leave.

Is the employee requesting SPL entitled to Statutory Maternity Leave or Statutory Adoption Leave or entitled to Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay or Maternity Allowance?

Statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental pay and maternity allowance will all be # 145.18 a week (up from # 140.98).

However, there are no changes to statutory maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental pay, which will all stay at # 139.58 a week.