How long do you usually have to work with a company before being entitled to their maternity benefits (rather than relying on legal minimum)?

[MrsFogi]

Can anyone give me any ideas of the norm - i.e. how long you need to be employed by a company before you can be entitled to their (usually better than state imposed legal minimum) maternity benefits? The reason I ask is that I'd really love to change jobs but as I am the main breadwinner we'd be really stuck if we had to rely on the legal minimum (mortgage payments to keep up etc). I've been putting off moving jobs for nearly two years now as we're ttc but as the years go past I keep thinking I should have moved over the last couple of years (clearly hindsight is a wonderful thing). What I want to avoid though is moving, hitting the jackpot re ttc and then having a problem in relation to maternity benefits. So, to work out how to play this I'd love to have an idea re my question above.

Where I work, you have to have been there a year by the time you're 6 months pregnant, or something like that. Which means you have to have been there for 6 months before you get pregnant. I don't know if this is standard or not. I know what kind of situation you're in, as we waited for me to move jobs & be there for 6 months before TTC. It didn't quite go to plan, of course, & it took me a year to get pregnant. Almost 9 weeks now though. I hope everything works out for you.

Congratulations on the pregnancy hoxtonturkey and thanks for that.
Anyone else know what their company does?

MrsFogi, this would be part of the contractual rights and therefore would be specified in the contract and obviously varies from company to company.

You have to have worked somewhere for 6 months before you get pregnant to get the standard 90% for 6 weeks, then SMP....or whatever the deal is now!!

Also, would you be prepared to move and put off ttc for 6 months?