Repayment of maternity pay

[bristolone]

Does anyone have experience of contractual maternity pay?
The contract says you must stay for three months - there is no further detail.
Do you have to stay for three months before resigning or can you resign before the three months is up provided your notice period covers those three months?
Could work force you to leave early upon resigning thus forcing you to repay the contractual maternity pay as you wouldn't have stayed for the specified time?
Any experience of this? I believe it is common in the NHS and teaching.

In teaching it's 13 weeks and that includes your notice period / any holidays.

I.e. Resign the week before Christmas and you will get your 13 weeks in by easter.

Where I work the notice period would count. So you wouldn't have to wait X months before you could resign.

You can also count accrued annual leave. So your maternity leave would end, then you'd resign, work two months and take the final month as leave and your notice period would be up.

How big is the organisation? Could you speak to HR in confidence (my organisation is huge so you could do this quite easily) or would it get back to your manager?

In my job notice period wouldn't count. It's specifically stated in my contract. If I resign within 12 months of being back at work I have to repay the entirety of my mat leave.

Organisation is fairly big but I think HR would tell my boss therefore I can't really ask. I wasn't given the flexible working I wanted so I think I will give it a go but will find it tough. I was wondering how long I would have to stick it out for, if it was too much of a juggle.

Thank you - I suspect (and hopefully) it is like redboxes organisation.

I am also in this position. I think the notice period counts. I am in the nhs if anyone has experience of this?