Shared Parental Pay - Enhanced company pay

[LaurenOrmesher]

Hi everyone.

I am due a baby in May, and wondered if anyone could clarify the rules behind shared parental leave and pay.

Both my Husband and I work for companies who offer enhanced maternity/SPL pay.
I understand that shared parental pay is 39 weeks of statutory leave, that can be split amongst a couple.
However, my question is how does enhanced pay affect this? we are both able to claim 26 weeks full pay, and 13 weeks statutory pay.

any help is greatly appreciated!
Thank you!!

It will depend on your own employers' conditions.

DH and I work for the same institution, they offer the same enhancement for SPL as maternity leave so partners on SPL get the same enhancement that women on maternity leave would get for that week. So, I went back after nine months and then DH took the tenth month of SPL but it was unpaid even though it was the first month of leave for him because I'd given him month 10.

Same as PP - DP and I work for the same company so we shared the enhanced and statutory pay between us. We were allowed to overlap though - e.g. we'd both have been able to claim full pay at the same time if we were on SPL at the same time, as long as it was within the first 26 weeks. But we wouldn't have been able to claim more than 26 weeks' worth of it between us, if that makes sense? We did do a bit of this because we were both able to use some annual leave in the first couple of months, before going back on SPL, which freed up some of the full pay entitlement to share.

If you are working for different companies, it would depend on their HR policies but you might find they won't pay the extra because enhanced ShPP will be made up of the statutory entitlement paid by the government (which you have to share between you) and a top-up paid by the firm. So it's possible they might pay the top-up only, or they might just say no.

All depends on your company.
We did this 1year ago. But work for separate companies.

Wife had 7months mat Leave, and I had 4 months SPL after on Full pay. So total of 11 months Leave.

I know colleagues who both work at my place and they can effectively tke 6 months each, one after the other, on full pay!

All depends on the rules of both sets of employers.