Second Maternity Pay qualifying period

[BabieMama]

Hello I work for a telecommunications company. I'm currently on my first maternity leave. I want to have babies close in age but worried about the money implications in taking a second year off work.

My question is quite specific - essentially I want to find out how long I have to go back to my job for to qualify for the enhanced pay my company offers (if they do offer it more than once) a second time as opposed to just statutory. Please don't think I'm taking the p - I've worked with this company a long time!!!

The best way to find out would be to contact our HR department I don't want to ask outright as the maternity pay where I work is very good.

If anyones got any tips on how I could word an email asking what the qualifying period for enhanced maternity pay would be for a second maternity that would be great. Many thanks in advance.

Ask them to email you a copy of their maternity policy. As you are currently on mat leave this is a perfectly reasonable request

Ask for a copy of your maternity policy.

In general though you've already reached the qualifying period as you're still employed while on maternity leave.

At my work I got a second enhanced maternity leave 9 months after returning from the first.