Looking for some advice as searching online hasn't really helped and know how amazing and knowledgeable people on here can be!
I'm a teacher and on maternity leave. Didnt take the extra pay just the satutory as didn't plan to return. Resigned a few weeks ago as per term deadlines for resigning and put end of December as my end date as I would have done if leaving the job to go to another one etc.
Have now been contacted to ask to re send letter with a new end date on it. That date being the day my satutory pay runs out rather than later on (which would be part of the unpaid maternity leave that you can take).
My questions are.. is this usual? Why are they asking me to do this when that time period is unpaid anyway?
What implications does doing this have for me?
This is probably a stupid question but what about National insurance, pensions and other benefits like death in service etc.. if I am not employed then all of this is gone... so would I not want to hang on to it even for the 3 months difference? Or does it not matter because no wages means no pension and NI anyway?
Googling this talks a lot about annual leave accural and I'm sort of aware of teachers managing to get paid for annual leave from some threads I remember reading before but not sure if this would apply to me anyway?
Would be really grateful if anyone can offer any advice. Plan to call HR this week and see what they say but would rather call with some idea of what to say and discuss/check first.
Thank you