How long do you have to work for a company untill you can take paid maternity leave???

Question

thanks xx

Answer 1

first find out if your company pays contractual maternity pay, if they do then it varies from company to company.
if not the you can apply for SMP statutory maternity pay

http://www.direct.gov.uk/Bfsl1/BenefitsAndFinancialSupport/BenefitsAndFinancialSupportArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=10018741&chk=UpIl27
go to this link it tells you all you need to know about SMP

Answer 2

In the Uk, they don't have to keep paying you! After you have been there 26 weeks you are entitled to 26 weeks Satutory Maternity Pay (SMP). Don't get too excited about this tho, its 90% of your salary for 6 weeks, then it drops to approx £120 a week. Less tax etc... (about £450 a month)

If you have been with your company a while (2 years?) you are then entitled to take Additional Maternity Leave (AML) for another 26 weeks. This does not have to be at all!

Some companies are better than others, and this indicates the minimum they HAVE to give you. Some companies operate schemes where they continue to pay your salary, but if you hand your notice in within x amount of time, they claim some or all of it back. Hopefully your company will be better than mine are - I'm on SMP.

Answer 3

If your expected week of childbirth is on or after April 1st 2007, the law will have changed and you are entitled to one year no matter how long your service with a company has been. Before that date, the old law entitles everyone to 26 weeks, but only those with 26 weeks continuous service to the full 52 weeks. Statutory pay has also been lengthened from 26 to 39 weeks. You can ask your company for a copy of their policy because some include more benefits than others. Good luck!!

Answer 4

I think that you will find that paid maternity leave is a statutory payment. Therefore, it doesn't matter if you have worked for the company for five minutes, if you are pregnant then you are entitled to SMP. Statutory Sick Pay works the same way.
Check out the Government website.
The alternative would be that you would use up holiday pay and that would depend on your contract of employment and when the holiday pay year starts and finishes.
Pop 'Statutory Maternity Pay' into your search engine and you will come up with the HM Customs and Revenue website. The answers are on there.

Answer 5

You can take maternity leave from your eighth month of pregnancy no matter how long you have worked for a company (unless you have a complicated pregnancy which requires you to take your leave earlier). How much you will get paid during your leave, and whether you will be able to return to your job at the end of your leave, depends on the country in which you live.

Answer 6

Each company has their own policy. To my knowledge there is no law that states a person has to be paid at some time during employment for maternity leave.

Answer 7

This is for Alberta, Canada:

Division 7
Maternity Leave and Parental Leave

Entitlement to maternity leave

45 A pregnant employee who has been employed by an employer for at least 52 consecutive weeks is entitled to maternity leave without pay.

RSA 2000 cE‑9 s45;2001 c6 s2

Length of maternity leave

46(1) The maternity leave to which a pregnant employee is entitled is a period of not more than 15 weeks starting at any time during the 12 weeks immediately before the estimated date of delivery.

(2) An employee who takes maternity leave must take a period of leave of at least 6 weeks immediately following the date of delivery, unless the employee and her employer agree to shorten the period by the employee’s giving her employer a medical certificate indicating that resumption of work will not endanger her health.

RSA 2000 cE‑9 s46;2001 c6 s2

Notice of maternity leave

47(1) A pregnant employee must give her employer at least 6 weeks’ written notice of the date she will start her maternity leave, and if so requested by her employer, the pregnant employee must provide her employer with a medical certificate certifying that she is pregnant and giving the estimated date of delivery.

(2) A pregnant employee is entitled to start maternity leave on the date specified in the written notice given to her employer under subsection (1).

RSA 2000 cE‑9 s47;2001 c6 s2

No notice of maternity leave

48 An employee who does not give her employer prior notice of maternity leave before starting it is still entitled to maternity leave if, within 2 weeks after she ceases to work, she provides her employer with a medical certificate

(a) indicating that she is not able to work because of a medical condition arising from her pregnancy, and

(b) giving the estimated or actual date of delivery.

RSA 2000 cE‑9 s48;2001 c6 s2

Notice of employer to start maternity leave

49 If during the 12 weeks immediately before the estimated date of delivery the pregnancy of an employee interferes with the performance of her duties, an employer may give the employee written notice requiring her to start maternity leave.

Answer 8

It depends on the company. My job didn't even offer paid maternity leave.

Hey if any pregnant women watched Oprah this week, you should move to Norway and work. One year of PAID maternity leave, free healthcare until baby's 7 and extra money just for a nanny???? He// yeah!!!!

Answer 9

Employers are not required to pay you for maternity leave. It is up to your employer as to if you get paid while you are out. If you have sick leave, you can take it as sick leave. You can get approved for FMLA; however, this does not necessarily entitle you to be paid while you are on maternity leave. It only protects your job, so your employer cannot replace you while you are on leave.

Good luck!

Answer 10

Every company has their own policies- THe best bet woul be to check with your superior or HR person. And there is Federal Law but it has restrictions to the F.M.L.A. (Family Medical Leave Act) check it out online.