What is your Company Maternity Pay like?

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Hi all

Just interested to see what everyone's Company Maternity Pay is like?

6 months full pay, 3 months SMP, 3 months unpaid. Paternity leave is 3 weeks full pay

Same as others:

6 months full pay, 3 months statutory, 3 months unpaid.

They give 4months full pay to mums as well as dads at work.
I’ve got the general rage anyway but what do you think about that? A guy from our team has just been off for 4 months on full pay.
I’d prefer mums to get say 5/6 months on full pay and dads to get a few months. Something doesn’t feel right to me that it’s the same for both?

6 weeks 90% 12 weeks 50% - shocking for a professional company which prides itself/promotes itself as being female friendly and promoting women to high levels and yet the maternity policy doesn't reflect that professional women are often the main earner and can't afford such a massive drop in wages

My company employs hundreds/over a thousand people and I saw a report that stated it would only cost the entire company £50k a year to increase the maternity pay to 6 months full pay.....they didn't implement it. But I bet that cost is less than the annual Xmas do for the 12+ regional offices 🤷‍♀️

I'm having twins and have to go back to work after the 18 weeks 😢

6 months full pay, 3 months SMP, 3 months none. I went back after 6 months (plus annual leave) and was really grateful.

15 weeks full pay then SMP

Statutory pay and not a penny more. And they wonder why all the young people leave and work elsewhere and after a year or 2 get pregnant at the new job. They employ a lot of people on their twenties and its so short sighted. We lose good workers due to this policy.

After 2 years of service, 52 weeks full pay plus pension.

But SPL is just 90% for 6 weeks, then stat.

Going up in April from 19 weeks full, stat mat to allowance (32? Weeks) and 3 months unpaid to 26 weeks full pay!

Lots of grumbling going on from the ladies due before the cut off date, but probably won’t make a difference like it didn’t when it went from 13 to 19 six years ago.

So in 6 years the full pay allowance has doubled which is quite good I think.

My employer’s approach was to tell me they couldn’t afford to pay for my replacement whilst still paying me, and I was being selfish expecting to still be paid. Think of the service users, we have so little to begin with and you’re taking money and resources away from them by expecting to be paid when you’re not working. Guilt guilt guilt. And they said therefore they wouldn’t continue to employ me. As soon as they realised that was illegal they swiftly changed the official reason to “there’s a reduced number of service users this year and we no longer need you”.

I will be getting six months full pay, three months statutory and if I did the full year the rest would be unpaid. The company also continues to pay into our pension for the whole year. Our company was recently acquired and previously only paid statutory so pretty happy to be under the new system.

My partner gets 16 weeks full paternity pay from his employer.

An there’s amazing quirk too when you drop to stat mat. Two of our sites have work place nurseries. The nursery fees are paid by salary sacrifice. If you have a child in nursery when off with subsequent children work pays your nursery fees and you receive 100% of your stat mat. I was pretty gobsmacked by that one

@DonkeyMcFluff

My employer’s approach was to tell me they couldn’t afford to pay for my replacement whilst still paying me, and I was being selfish expecting to still be paid. Think of the service users, we have so little to begin with and you’re taking money and resources away from them by expecting to be paid when you’re not working. Guilt guilt guilt. And they said therefore they wouldn’t continue to employ me. As soon as they realised that was illegal they swiftly changed the official reason to “there’s a reduced number of service users this year and we no longer need you”.

That’s so out of order. With my second I had the opposite, they wouldn’t let them have a maternity cover. A quarter of the team was off sick when I came back. Basically the volume of the backlog was what I’d have done I’d I hadn’t been off

Wow this thread is depressing, I didn't realise so many employers offer enhanced packages. I just get the statutory amount.

Shite

6 weeks at 90% then next 34 weeks at stat then 12 unpaid

In my husbands work it's 12 months full pay. Alright for some 🤣

@MrsMarrio

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6 weeks at 90% then next 34 weeks at stat then 12 unpaid

In my husbands work it's 12 months full pay. Alright for some 🤣

I suggest checking out shared parental leave policy for his work then especially the last 3 months you can share and then use holidays to spend time together 😊

Just statutory here. I’m quite high up in a private healthcare company with a company car etc, so a bit disappointed with the mat policy but it is what it is.

@Scottishskifun
Should have mentioned 12 months for maternity leave, paternity leave is 1 week full pay and 1 week smp until I pointed it out it was unfair on men, DH raised it with the union and it got changed to 2 weeks full pay just before our son was born. No clue what the shared leave is for his company though

Statutory only for me. In charity sector so can't expect more than that.

5 months full pay, 4 months stat, 3months unpaid

My employers have a very generous policy of full pay for 40 weeks then 12 weeks unpaid. It's contingent on returning to work for at least 12 months after

[quote MrsMarrio]@Scottishskifun
Should have mentioned 12 months for maternity leave, paternity leave is 1 week full pay and 1 week smp until I pointed it out it was unfair on men, DH raised it with the union and it got changed to 2 weeks full pay just before our son was born. No clue what the shared leave is for his company though [/quote]
Shared parental leave is also a legal right they may not currently have a procedure in place but doesn't mean its not available and if they offer full year pay mat leave it should be same for shared parental leave. It uses maternity leave but gives fathers more time off but reduces mothers time off.

www.gov.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-pay

4 months full, 4 months 50%. Husband has 4 months full aswell so going to do 8 months and he will take 4 months off, he literally can not wait!!

22 weeks full pay, SMP up to 39 weeks, then unpaid

DH gets statutory paternity pay only

Wow where are you all working that you get so much full pay?! Serious question I think I need to change employers before the next one! Mine is 6 weeks at 90% then SMP with a few months at the end with no pay.