What’s your mat leave?

[Fluttershyy]

Just that, what’s your enhanced mat leave where you work? If you’ve got a good one, where do you work ( roughly)?

mine is 6 months full pay, wondering if this is as good as it gets?

Presumably these roles in finance are already well paid? So full pay is significantly more than it would be for many?

I work at a post-92 university and I’m getting:

2 months full pay
4 months half pay plus SMP (which is about 75% pay at my salary).
3 months SMP only
3 months unpaid

Def can’t afford any time unpaid so will be going back at 9 months but 6 weeks of that at least will be holiday as I can’t afford to live on £600 a month either, funnily enough.

I had nine months full pay. It exists!

4 weeks full pay
2 weeks 90%
12 weeks 50%
Remaining to 38 weeks stat.

Teacher

SIL is military. 6 months full 6 months half!

@Fluttershyy yes a year's full pay. Does your question indicate your disbelief, like i referenced in my original post?😉

Blimey
Nhs mat pay is better than some I know
But it's not keeping pace with some described here!!

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/ford-justifies-enhancing-maternity-pay-while-offering-statutory-paternity-pay/

It was (that and wondering how I can side step to that industry) I’d perhaps wondered if it was the old ‘up to a years maternity leave’ that some companies spout when in reality they offer the bare minimum. But that’s incredible!

Where do you work? X

Local Government -
6 weeks 90% earnings
12 weeks occupational mat pay- half pay (if you’ve been there a year)
SMP

Not the worst, not the best lol

A girl I work with in the NHS used to work at Tom Ford and she was given 1 year full pay mat leave 😵😳

Why do I work here 😥😂

NHS is
8 weeks full pay
18 weeks half pay plus smp
13 weeks smp
13 weeks nothing

can average pay out for the year so you get 12 equal payments excluding smp.

13 weeks full, 13 weeks half then 3m SMP and 3m unpaid. I'm the main earner and my husband is not eligible for shared parental leave so back to work after 28 weeks and some added AL, and baby going to nursery slightly earlier than we would like.
Still know we are luckier than some have it!!

Mine was 3 month full pay 3 month 80% pay then SMT

Mine is 16 weeks full pay. I think yours sounds good!

That’s really good

I work in a really big well known corporate firm who are known for supporting families

but our Mat leave is 6 weeks full, then 7-39 weeks half, then SMP for up to a year after that

I know that this is better than some but the 6 weeks makes things tight especially when you already have a child at nursery and mortgage fees

I work at a University.

you can have either 18 weeks full pay and with all the SMP, 52 weeks leave
or
9 weeks full pay and then 18 weeks of half pay with all the relevant SMP

Closure dates and annual leave are accrued and may be used at the end so my thinking is to “return to work” around 11 months and then take 5 weeks of paid leave

@Namechanger355
you can get smp on top of half pay though can’t you? This is what happens in the NHS unless adding the smp takes you over full pay.

Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) is paid for up to 39 weeks. You get:

• 90% of your average weekly earnings (before tax) for the first 6 weeks
• £172.48 or 90% of your average weekly earnings (whichever is lower) for the next 33 weeks

SMP is paid in the same way as your wages (for example monthly or weekly). Tax and National Insurance will be deducted.

to be eligible you must meet the requirements here

26 weeks full pay; 13 weeks SMP; 13 weeks no pay... but in the last 13 weeks I did 10 KIT days at full pay and I had 44 days A/L to take (my mat leave coincided with our leave year).

Mine is 8 weeks 90%, 18 weeks half pay + SMP (basically full pay) 12 weeks SMP, 12 weeks unpaid. NHS.

Im opting for 12 equal payments though.

DH works for a very small tech start up who laud themselves on being family friendly.

2 weeks stat paternity. Shared parental leave would be unpaid. Not impressed.

Also publishing industry. Previous employer was 21 weeks full pay then SMP to 9 months. Now 18 weeks full pay then SMP to 9 months. Given that it's not a particularly well paid industry, I'm pretty pleased with both!

12 months full pay, automotive

I work in engineering consultancy, the usual for large global ones with UK contracts is 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay. This is being pushed in construction by some to 6 months full pay https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/mcalpine-trumps-wates-with-six-months-parental-leave. Some government bodies do a full year’s pay and I’d heard that Accenture did a full year but maybe they stopped that because online it says 16 weeks.

This site has some, seems the most is 6 months https://parentpromise.co.uk/ftse100-companies-ranked-by-parental-leave-offer-2023/

Apparently Vodafone do things like full pay for 4 days work for returning parents to help them with childcare and keep them in work by making it a viable. I’d prefer a policy like that to longer paid leave.

16 weeks full pay
SMP topped up to £200 per week up to week 39
Engineering/ Consultancy company.

It's better than I had when I had 1st DC x