How much maternity leave am i intitled to if i dont want to return to my job after the baby is born?

Question

Also i am told that i dont have to say wether i am returning to work or not yet, but if i dont return will i owe my company money for any maternity pay that i will have recieved?

I am still unsure wether i want to return to work as this is my first child and i dont know if i will be able to leave it with someone else as my partner works too. His job is better paid and we can live on just his wage, and also i am guessing that child care will be costing as much as i am earning anyway. I just dont want to be owing anybody anything. I guess i cant make the decision wether to return or not till i have had the baby because i dont really know what to expect yet.

Oh and i have worked there for nearly 2 years. 2 years in june i think, and my baby is due june 15th.

I live in England

Answer 1

I live in the uk.
you are entiltled to statury mat pay for 6 months (9months after april 07) which is approx £108 a week I think.
I worked for the council and you don't have to tell them if you are coming back but are given the option of not having the money you would have to pay back paid to you unless you return to work and tyhey give it to you then if you see what I mean, you could see if this is an option for your company

Answer 2

Your entitled to full maternity pay for the 9 months your off, (39 weeks after 1st April 2007), you dont owe the company any money if you leave, every woman is entitled to S.M.P, regardless if you intend to return or not after the child is born. Congradulations and good luck.

Answer 3

Every job, every state is different. It is not called maternity pay in most states, it is called short-term disability. The average is 6 weeks for normal births and 8 for C-Section, unless you have a complication.

You legally don't have to say anything and they can't keep asking you. As a courtesy, I told my immediate supervisor and my judge that I had no intention of coming back.

I told my adminstrator and her asst it was doubtful but up in the air.

I came back for one day and officially quit. I had to come back because the person I trained to take over my stuff (and I spent MONTHS!!!) left and I had to train someone else. I paid nothing back.

(No one judge me...this was an awful place to work, they are awful to their staff. and I was on the fence about taking the money...then I had a threatened miscarriage and they called me to say "We've inacted your family leave act......If you have this baby anytime you are on bedrest now will be taken from your bank if the baby makes it." This was 8 hours later.....I let them pay for my master's took my 12 weeks (I had complications) and left!!!!!!!)

My sister-in-law was a teacher and had she not come back to finish the year, she would have had to pay her leave and her insurance for the birth back.

My human resources department said that the leave is not earned by returning...you earned it by working there already.

Answer 4

I don't know where you live but in Ontario Canada you can take 15 weeks of sick leave (which I took before I had my son because I was really sick) then I'm pretty sure 15 weeks of maternity and then you get about 30 weeks of parental leave which dad can take if mom wants to go back to work .. so with out sick leave you get about 1 year off and it's paid for as long as you worked full time before maternity leave and you only collect 50% of your wages but some employers pay out the other 50% you also can take a 2nd year off but not paid and they have to hold you job for you I'm not sure about telling them whether or not your coming back to work but I doubt you have to let them know right away but I'm sure you have to give them some notice

I know in the U.S it is alot different and I think after 6months you have to go back to work that sucks I can't imagine having to go back when my baby is only 6 months old 1 year old even sounds too soon. I think it's sweden they pay moms to be stay at home moms I think that is a great idea.. being a mom is the hardest job ever and we should all be able to stay at home and raise our kids it would cut down on day care costs..... good luck

wow I was reading what alot of people have been saying about if they don't go back to work they have to pay back all of the money they got on "maternity leave" or whatever they call it in the U.S that is awful I took 15 weeks of sick 15 weeks of maternity leave and 30 weeks of parental and was paid for pretty much a year and a half I never told my employer whether I was coming back or not and I chose not to I am no longer getting paid for maternity leave but I do not have to pay even a red penny back.. in canada you just have to be working a certain amount of hours almost full time to qualify for maternity benefits because you are paying taxes so that is part of where your taxes go... but even if you don't work fulltime you can apply for social assitance and you still can take 2 years off (maybe not paid I'm not too sure but I know they HAVE to hold your job for you for 2 years)

Answer 5

Your pay usually comes out of your short term disibility fund. I don't see why you would have to pay that back if you choose not to return. I would check into the legality of that statement, by whoever made it to you.

For pay wise, you are usually alloted 6 weeks if a vaginal birth, 8 if a c-section.

If you have enough of your FMLA, which guarentees you your job, but not necessarily pay, you can use the remaining time to be off unpaid. FMLA guarentees 12 weeks I believe, so if you are gone 6 with pay, you can take 6 with out pay and if you are gone 8 with pay you can take 4 with out pay. I believe this is how it works.

Answer 6

contained in the united kingdom, you in consumer-friendly words favor to take position for artwork on the end of your maternity go away. you are able to then get a certificate from the healthcare professional, pointing out that you've melancholy or some delivery appropriate project. Your HR branch won't be able to argue with a medical human being, they could take his/her be conscious that you're surely unwell. in case you attend your artwork for even one finished day after your maternity go away, you received't favor to pay lower back some thing.. You by no ability comprehend, the recent position may experience you. it truly is amazingly sneaky, yet one among my colleagues advised us all that she had extremely no objective of returning to artwork after her toddler become born, yet might want to be making good use of the regulation. She got here lower back for 3 days, then become signed off by way of her healthcare professional, because of rigidity and lower back issues, brought about by way of the delivery. it truly is no longer straightforward, yet she did cope with to keep all of her maternity pay.

Answer 7

In the United States, you are paid for your maternity leave through disability and not by your employer, your employer is legally obligated to allow you up to six months of leave. Disability will pay you up to six weeks for a vaginal delivery and twelve weeks for a c-section. I would highly advise you to make your decision to quit after you go back, your employer does not need to know this information! You need to protect your possible employment and insurance benefits.

Answer 8

Your company will have to pay you for a certain amount of time according to how long you have worked there, you can stay at home longer but you will most likely not be paid it. normally after about 6 months of unpaid leave they can legally advertise your job as vacant. call the company's HR dept and get there advice, if its a small company call the CAB or ACCAS

Answer 9

That depends on the company, I worked for a large compnay and took maternity leave and did not return and I did have to pay them back. I would check with Human Resources Department if one is available.

Answer 10

Really depends on your company's policy. As for my wife, she was entitled to 6 weeks for natural birth, or 12 weeks for c-section. What she did, which would be a good idea for you, is she invested in some short-term disability insurance and used that to suppliment her maternity leaves money (as it wasn't her full pay.) Just a thought.