To wonder what job people do if they get good maternity pay?

[Aliveinwanderland]

I have heard time and time again about women getting 6 months full pay, even a year full pay, for maternity leave!

What job do these women do??? Seriously I am tempted by a career change!

I work for a charity and we get the bare legal minimum 😒

I'm a sales manager for a multinational, billion pound medical company- I get statutory 😡 But can keep the company car whilst I'm off and my employer will keep paying their share of pension contributions.

I got 4 months full pay and then 4 months statutory - it was a FTSE100 insurance co. Other benefits were good too - yearly bonus, 29 days hol, good pension, lots of salary sacrifice options, OK about me going P/T.

Loved my team but hated my job so left - was very difficult to voluntarily leave that package behind but I did now I've had my babies

At the risk of being flamed for a stealth boast- civil service. My dept at least pay 12 months full pay

I can't remember exactly, 6 months on full pay, but I'm not sure whether the next 3 were on full or reduced pay. You could then have another 3 without pay. Blue chip FTSE 100, salary is not great I have to say but terms and conditions good.

Small family run business. Property developer. Full pay for duration of maternity leave. Twice.

Appreciate I'm one of the lucky ones.

Local government, 3 months full pay and 3 months enhanced which was about 90% of full pay.

Local government, old old old contract which I think they got wrong, I had 90% pay for 6 months, followed by 3 months at an enhanced rate slightly over stat pay, 2nd time they paid my childcare voucher as well.

I just get statutory maternity pay. 6 weeks at 90% of my salary - that's it. I'm quite senior in hotels.

I got 6 months full pay, then 3 months half pay like others have said I'm civil service. Worth bearing in mind though that although you get decent mat pay the pay isn't actually that good in the first place (unless your senior level, in which case it's pretty difficult if not impossible to then return to work part time) we also have the option of salary averaging and having a term time working pattern. It does actually all fall within the National Family Friendly working guidance so all employers have to consider applications for these working patterns and must give full explanations for refusing. Also worth noting though that like I said a lot of private sector employers have higher pay in the first place so you need to balance it out. I ended up staying in my job simply because of the reserved rights I have from having an old style contract (21 years) an I don't think you have any mat leave rights unless you've been on a permanent contract for at least 12 months. Civil service tends to be a very high % women in the lower grades but as you move higher and higher it's another male dominated workforce I'm afraid..

I'm sure I heard that Ford pay full pay for maternity leave to attract more women.

Yopu can see why our taxes are so high - those of us with none of these benefits as ever paying tax to ensure other women working for the state get these types of benefits. Unfair world, isn't it?

www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave/pay
Everyone should be getting 90% for 39 weeks everywhere anyway tbh.

Lrts also bear in mind Dogcatred that I worked full time for 16 years BEFORE I had a child and had never claimed any benefits at all - so actually I paid for it myself - as we all do thank you! Surely we should be looking to improve these rights for everyone instead of dragging the better working contracts down to the lower levels we see now????

Council has 6 months full pay. I looked at their pay and conditions accidentally. Teachers don't get the same deal!

I used to do customer services for a insurance company and provided you have been there a year you got a year fully paid as long as you went back for at least a year

(Awful lot of years in there sorry )

dogcatred you do realise that those of us that work for the state also pay tax don't you.

Verab you get 90% for first 6 weeks and then 90% for 33 weeks IF your weekly pay is less than the statutory minimum. Most people earn more than the minimum so only get that.

Everyone should be getting 90% for 39 weeks everywhere anyway tbh

No. 6 weeks at 90% and then 33 weeks at 90% or £130ish whichever is the lower.

6 months full pay as a Civil Servant. I thought this was normal until I was told what some other jobs get!

I work in payroll

Teachers get 4 weeks full pay, 2 weeks 90%, 12 weeks half pay plus SMP, 21 weeks SMP only

Other school workers get 6 weeks 90%, 12 weeks half pay plus SMP, 21 weeks SMP.

A solicitor firm I do get 8 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay, 23 weeks SMP only

I only get SMP :-(

6 months full pay, 3 months half pay. I then used up annual leave to make it more.

I work in retail.

University here - quite a good package.

12 week full pay, 12 weeks half pay, then statutory up to a year. But at the end, you also get your holidays and bank holidays which is 41 days, so that's another 2 months full pay. I was off for 12.5 months and there were only a few months of statutory - the rest was higher.

I worked in local gvt, 6 months at 90% with the 10% paid as a bonus in my first pay after returning. Pretty good tbh 👌

Yes frikadela01 you're right, that's the point I was making exactly. I've checked and I got 6 months full, then 3 months at 2/3 pay. 2/3 was my new returning wage for part time anyway so I didn't feel so much of a drop. My point being that its because the pay is low in the first place. It's a total Miscomprehension that Civil Servants have it cushy. If I was earning twice as much in the first place I would have put some aside to cover the shortfall when the pay dropped. Having said that you live with the means you're used to so if SMP is hugely less than you're usual wage it'd be a massive tightening of the belt :(

I work in local government. You 6 weeks at 90%. 12 weeks at 1/2 pay + smp. Then smp. You have to sign a statement of return. So that you will return for 3 months after maternity leave or you have to pay back.