Civil Service Maternity Pay with Promotion to another Department

[soggybeans93]

Hello! Would appreciate any advice on this!

I'm currently working in the Cabinet Office and have been for the past 6 months. I am pregnant with a due date of end of Sept, by which time i would have worked for CO for over a year. Before working for CO I worked for Department for Education for 14 months.

However, I've been offered an interview for a promotion at BEIS and I don't know whether to go ahead because if I get offered the job I would have only been in role for 6 months (April - end of Sept) before having to take mat leave. Does anyone know whether mat leave service transfers across departments? I've been working for Civil service for a total of 28 months by the time I'd take mat leave but don't know whether it would only count as 6 months for mat leave in which case I wouldn't qualify for full mat leave, if that makes sense. Has anyone had any experience of this?

Not had experience, but the key issue is continuity of service as the crown is the employer, so I think you will be fine. If you transfer between Departments without a break you have continuity of service for annual leave purposes so can't see it would be different for mat leave

Yes this is absolutely fine, you keep your continuity of service when transferring Xgov.

It's absolutely fine. It doesn't matter which dept you work for, you're a permanent CS so it is transfered

Hey, did you find out if you were definitely eligible if you moved across departments?
I am looking to move government departments but don’t want to wait a full year before TTC!!

Yes fisheries you can move departments and keep continuity of service without a problem in CS! I'm on my 4th department.

yes you can. your continued service is against HMG not the individual department