SML and Redundancy

[kimsaunders]

Hi

I hope someone can help me.

I was put at risk of redundancy the day before I found out i was pregnant.

As it stands my employment will end 31 December.

My expected due date is 15 March.

Where do I stand with this?

If anyone has any information i would appreciate it i have been reading the government website but confused about it.

I have been with my employer for a year.

I have not let them know I am pregnant yet as i had a loss in February so was waiting for my 12 week scan before telling anyone.

Thanks!

Hi, I don't know the answer but wanted to suggest you try posting this in the "Employment issues" section, as there are some employment lawyers who often give advice in that section and may be able to help.

In the meantime, I googled and found this page which says:

"Pregnant women (not yet on maternity leave) who are made redundant may still qualify for statutory maternity pay if they: (1) work for the same employer for at least 26 weeks leading up to the 15th week before their baby is due (the 'qualifying week'); (2) they remain employed during all or part of the qualifying week; and (3) earn at least £97 on average in the eight weeks before the end of the qualifying week.

While women made redundant prior to the qualifying week, cannot claim statutory maternity pay, they can claim maternity allowance."

It looks to me like the 15th week before your baby is due will fall at the end of November/beginning of December. Therefore, it looks like you should still get SMP (assuming you will have been there 26 weeks by then, and you earn over £97 a week).

thanks for that i am going to post this in the employment issue too!

thank you for the link and your help

see this page. This is government's own website and says the same as the bit I quoted above.

However it looks like the earnings threshold is now £107 a week not £97 a week.

You need to still be employed by them when you're 25 weeks pregnant - otherwise you'll just qualify for Maternity Allowance instead, I believe, which is £135 a week for 33 weeks (it's the same as SMP, but without the 6 weeks at 90%)

25 weeks pregnant is so much easier to understand than "15th week before your baby is due"!

yes that makes so much more sense! thank you

so i will be 29 weeks by the time my employment terminates.

this is excellent news

Hurrah, good news then :)

:o minipie!