Do pregnancy procedures count towards paid time off?

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Was booked in for an emergency cervical stitch due to short cervix for yesterday morning, though it didn’t happen until last night which meant I had to stay in overnight until being discharged today. Also been told to stay off work tomorrow to rest for 48 hours.

Does anyone know if this would be paid time off at work due to it being pregnancy related? Don’t want to ask/assume it is and be told no and have to use annual leave😅

Paid time off for prenatal care is a legal requirement in the UK

Yes it should be paid time off

Of course it is paid leave. Having a hospital procedure and the recovery time would be paid time off regardless of being pregnancy related or sickness. Are there other instances of your employer making you use annual leave for medical procedures?

No they’ve never previously made me use annual leave although I’ve never had a procedure before like this and had to have time off so this is a first! I know you get it for all appointments etc but wasn’t sure if I’d get the 3 days off full pay due to it being a procedure this time!

No it isn't for lots of jobs. My work it would be statutory sick or useless annual leave.

I don't know the law well enough, but I think where I work that would be classed as sick not maternity. We can go to appointments in work time but I think if in hospital it would not count.

You are entitled to reasonable paid time off for all antenatal appointments, scans and classes providing they are recommended by a registered medical practitioner as part of your antenatal care.

This is from Maternity Action, I don't think hospitalisation would be covered - I know I only got statutory sick for pregnancy illness.

But hopefully your employer is better.

Statutory sick leave is paid for all jobs. It might not be at full pay but it is paid leave.

This would be sick leave as it’s over a few days, although it wouldn’t count against you as it’s still pregnancy sick leave, it unfortunately doesn’t get full pay unless that’s a company thing

At my work you wouldn’t get paid sick pay for the first 5 days

Stat sick pay is now a day one right so you should be able to get stat pay for those 5 days, but I wouldn’t class those as paid days off, because while technically they are paid it’s at a much lower rate than normal pay for most people.

The appointment would count as the time that doesn’t need to be made back up, but the subsequent days would be annual leave or sick leave.

The law changed in April. They need to pay you from day 1.

Sorry should have been clearer. But no one thinks SSP is actually being paid. No one can live on it.

I would just ask your workplace because whether you ask or not you need to know so you don’t end up unpaid. Antenatal appointments are paid but hospital visits for pregnancy related sickness are usually classed as sick pay. I would think your recovery time would be sick pay but the only way to know for sure is to ask