Shared parental leave/pay-help please!

[Daff59]

Please help, myself and DH are tying ourselves in knots with this and his HR dept are so unhelpful! Ok so I'm entitled to-
8 wks full pay
18 wks half
13 wks stat
13wks unpaid
I want to take 50wks mat leave and give the remaining 2wks (as shared parental leave) to DH. He intends to take 2 wks paternity leave following the birth and then 2wks shared parental leave thereafter. It is only him that is going on shared parental leave, I am not (although have given my curtailment notice to work).
Can anyone advise as to whether he gets any pay whilst on shared parental leave?
We thought he might get stat pay however his HR say that this would in turn curtail my mat pay bringing it down to stat too? (Which would obvs not be in my favour) thankyou xx

You would need to cut your maternity pay for him to be able to get shared pay. You dont create extra leave/pay so for him to get anything you need to cut yours. Could he take 2 weeks unpaid leave instead or annual leave?

Thankyou for your reply. So would this mean cutting my total period of mat pay from 39 weeks to 37? So the 2 weeks he gets would get taken from my 13 weeks of stat pay? His HR are making it sound like it would affect my initial 8wk portion of (full) pay

maternityaction.org.uk/advice/shared-parental-leave-and-pay/ don't know if this is any help. Think they have a helpline too

We looked into this, and although it's not very clear, we eventually decided we thought it would mean I would only get stat mat pay. Not the remaining full pay or half pay. So no wonder so few people have taken it up! Worth clarifying for your job specifically, but that was what we were told.

So essentially (as I understand it) for him to have shared parental leave, you have to stop maternity leave, and instead both take shared parental leave, divided however you wish. Which is paid at stat mat pay.

OP can stay on maternity leave and pay, she doesnt need to be on shared leave/pay even if her dh takes shared leave/pay.

I just don't know how it affects your mat pay if he wants to get shared pay. Is his shared pay amount the same as statutory maternity pay?

OP gives notice to end leave and pay early in order to free up leave/pay for her dh. So yes I think if you agree to end your maternity pay period 2 weeks early then your dh can have 2 weeks shared pay.

Ah then it was different for us (both nhs) we were told it was either maternity leave (with enhanced pay) or shared parental leave.

I've done this with DH.

Essentially I am taking 39 weeks maternity leave, which leaves 13 weeks unpaid.

I transferred two of those unpaid weeks (giving notice to end maternity leave at 39 weeks and 'start' shared leave) to DH as shared parental leave. He can be on shared parental leave while I remain on maternity leave.

It did not affect my pay at all as I remained on maternity pay.

His two weeks of shared leave were unpaid, as I am taking all paid leave.

If you want him to get stat pay then you'd have to give him 2 weeks of your stat pay alongside the 2 weeks' leave (as per your example). Or you can give him 2 weeks of your unpaid leave instead (as per Alarae's example.

Neither of these should affect the calculation of your SMP. Whether it affects your occupational mat pay is down to your employer's policy. I suppose it might do if you receive occupational pay for the full 52 weeks.

Thanks everyone. Might just look into him taking unpaid leave instead as SPL doesn't really seem to be of benefit to us after all xx