this will be my second baby that has been born while dh and I have been self employed. We both work in the business but last time we had only recently started I took no leave at all this time I would like to take at least some time off, although we work from home it was still tricky juggling a newborn and 3 other children with working on the computer etc.
I seem to qualify in terms if earnings and NI but I was wondering how it works if the business will still be running without me? Projects will still be getting done just at a slower rate so although income will fall it will not halve when stop working because of the nature of the work. We normally just split the profit half each but i assume dh will then get 100% of the profit while I'm not working? Does anyone have any clue how it works? Can I still take leave ?
It is not a huge business our combined income was less than 25,000
Last year so we can't really afford maternity leave without any top up to earnings.