Commission from my job while on maternity leave?

Question

i work for an estate agents and soon due to go on maternity leave. I receive my basic salary plus £20 commission per sale this is regardless of who sold the property i receive it on all sales. Does anyone know if i will still be entilited to the commission while im on maternity leave.

Answer 1

Probably not cos won't actually be working.

Answer 2

For babies due after 1st April 2007 SMP is for 39 weeks. Your employer pays it to you and then claims most or all of it back from the Inland Revenue. You can get it even if you don't plan to go back to work. You do not have to pay SMP back if you don't return to work
[note however SOME Companies offer a BONUS if you return to work for at least 6 months]

SMP is paid at two rates:

* For the first six weeks you get 90% of your average earnings. The average is calculated from the pay you actually received in the eight weeks or two months up to the last pay day before the end of the qualifying week (i.e. the 15th week before your due date).

* You will then get £112.75 per week for the remaining weeks, or 90% of your average earnings if this is less. Your employer pays your SMP in the same way as your salary is paid. They deduct any tax and National Insurance contributions

[SOME Companies pay more - check with your HR Department]

Answer 3

In theory, you will only be absolutely entitled to the statutory maternity pay from the government (which is £108 per week) as long as you have been working for your employer since before you became pregnant (in simple terms).

Any other pay on top of that is at the discretion of your employer so you should ask them what their policy is.

I have friends who only received the statutory pay even though they had been with their employer for 4 years and others who get full pay fo the majority of their leave.

In short, you should approach your employer.

Good luck with the baby!