Hi,
Baby due end of August and will be taking maternity leave on my EDD.
Have recently seen lots of talk on Twitter about teachers using Shared Parental Leave to ‘return to work’ during the holidays and to get full pay before going back on mat leave on the first day of term to bolster their maternity pay as obviously we don’t accrue holiday pay in the normal way whilst on mat leave.
Had a look on NEU and NASUWT websites but struggling to understand how the SPL system works and how it can be ‘used’ to earn full pay during holiday periods. I was of the understanding that the father has to be using the Shared Parental Leave whilst the mother returns to work but others have suggested this isn’t the case.
My husband is the higher earner of the two of us, so it wouldn’t be worth it financially for me to ‘return to work’ during the holidays if he would only earn SMP in that time.
If anyone has experience or understanding of using SPL in this way and could explain it to me, I’d be really grateful.
Thanks!
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lineandsinker · 07/07/2019 13:32
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