Shared parental leave

[mccurrykaren]

Hello, shared parental leave id due to come in April 2015. My husband and I have decided he is going to take the majority of the maternity leave ie 8 months and I am just going to take as long as I need to recover. This is due to my work not being as flexible(he is in the civil service) and when we had our first child I got post natal depression and I feel I need to keep busy to avoid that happening again. Basically my question is if I sign my maternity leave over to my husband and he is in the civil service does he get the same rights as a female in the civil service ie 6 months full pay and 3 months half pay? Any help would be great. Thanks

www.gov.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-pay/overview
Gives you a good overview. I tried to look into it at work (nhs so also public sector) and found my employee relations people weren't very clued up on it despite it coming in very soon. You have to give two months notice of your intention to share your leave and your payroll have to talk to his payroll but my understanding is it is the statutory bit of your maternity pay that is shared not the occupational pay so the full pay/half pay bit isn't included. I could have it very wrong though so will keep an eye to see if anybody on here has got it to work

Me and my OH looked at this last night to see how it works and from what we could see, he would get the statutory maternity pay at the same amount that I would get. I think women in his place get full pay when on maternity leave but he wouldn't get that.

As far as I understand men only get statutory unless their company says different (which is unlikely).....

Like others I think men only get the statutory maternity pay not the package civil service offers mothers. Be worth him asking his HR department.