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Maternity, paternity and parental leave: your rights

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RebeccaMumsnet · 20/01/2014 11:42

As if suddenly being in possession of a baby weren't daunting enough, it throws up questions around work which new parents are often ill-equipped to answer.

Barristers Natasha Joffe and Lydia Seymour have put together series of factsheets on employment rights after maternity leave, covering what leave and pay entitlements, how to seek flexible working, and your legal rights if you're treated badly because you're a parent.

They've also looked at the Talk boards and put together some responses to FAQs on this topic.

Do pop over and take a look and let us know what you think.

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SarahMumsnet · 20/01/2014 16:38

Hey CouthyMow - thanks for the suggestion; it's a good one. I'll pass on to Natasha and Lydia

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SarahMumsnet · 23/01/2014 10:15

@flowery

"This means that if, for example, you are made redundant after you come back to work your redundancy pay would take account of the six months of Ordinary Maternity Leave but not any time spent on Additional Maternity Leave.'"

Does it really say that Marie? Goodness no, that's not right. Maternity leave isn't discounted from service, and any employer who tried to give someone less redundancy pay on the basis that time spent on maternity leave didn't count would be in some trouble.

That's a bit worrying!

Thanks for flagging this, both - Natasha and Lydia have seen it and are looking into it as a matter of urgency.

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SarahMumsnet · 23/01/2014 13:46

Hey all, just to let you know we've spoken to Natasha and Lydia. They say:

[quote] Big apologies - mariefab and flowery are absolutely right and the position in relation to AML is now (and has been since 2008) the same as that in relation to OML – i.e. you should not be disadvantaged by having taken maternity leave in respect of any contractual or length of service rights. Not sure how we failed to update that and many thanks for noticing it so quickly.

The position in terms of pension rights is slightly more complicated and we are updating the note to reflect this. We are also very interested in the other possible areas that have been suggested and are looking into producing a note to consider the specific issues arising for parents of children with disabilities. [/quote]

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