Enhanced Maternity Pay.

[Minnierose11]

Hello!

My boss has recently mentioned they are looking into introducing enhanced maternity pay for their management teams into our contracts, and I'm just wondering basically what other companies offer in terms of enhanced maternity pay.
I've had a google and it varies pretty drastically of course, and of course no size fits all and some will be more generous than others.

It's fantastic and welcome news for me, as me and my DH are currently TTC.. so very welcome news.

Also, does anyone's company/employer offer extended enhanced maternity pay, I've read online that some can choose to extend it for the full 52 weeks of maternity leave.

No right or wrong answers of course, just curious! Not something I've ever really thought of or explored as always expect basic SMP when the time came.
Thank you.

Where I work we get full pay for six months, three months on SMP then three months of zero pay if you take the full year. When you return to work if you leave within six months you have to pay back the enhanced pay proportionally

Full pay for 6 months, SMP for 3 months, nothing for the final 3 months. We don't have to repay the enhanced maternity leave if we leave the company soon after mat leave.

I work in financial services, for a very large company.

50% pay (+SMP) for 6 months, thrn just SMP for 3 months then nothing

We get SMP enhanced to full pay for 3 months, then enhanced to half pay for 3 months, then just SMP for 3 months

@Minnierose11
From a policy point of view there are a number of factors your employer will need to consider.

What is being considered for other family benefits such as Adoption pay, Shared Parental Pay, Paternity pay? If an employer committed to D & I these need to be part of the conversation.

The starting point is always statutory entitlement, both the eligibility criteria and the £. This is because Occupational maternity pay is a “top up” to SMP not instead of.

A employer can add eligibility criteria for occupational pay e.g. 12 months continuous service, employees required to return to work for a minimum period or repay etc.

The most cost effective for an employer is “topping up” SMP for the first 6 weeks, 90% to 100%. This is minimal cost because employers re-claim 92% of SMP from the gmt.

The next is “topping up” to 100% for 3 months or 6 months. Some employers may “top up” to a mixture of full and half pay. Anything over 6 months is generous.

@Premiumbondbaby that's all way above my pay grade haha - and I'm sure the directors will factor all the above into the final decision making.

I'm just merely asking from an employee perspective to other employees what their enhance maternity pay packages are, not to forward that onto my director, again, I'm just thankful for the consideration from them, merely through curiosity x

@Minnierose11 fair enough, I assumed you wanted to influence your employers to offer occupational pay.

No, not at all, I wouldn't overstep that mark, just thankful it's a consideration and was curious at to what that could potentially look like. Thank you though xxx

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