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IRS maternity pay survey: payment for keeping-in-touch days

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Source: IRS Employment Review

Issue: 881

Date: 05/10/2007

Publisher: IRS

IRS maternity pay survey: payment for keeping-in-touch days

TOPICS:

pay and benefits	pay levels and awards
terms, conditions and employee rights	working time and leave

SECTORS:
chemicals
finance
food, drink and tobacco
manufacturing (other)
paper and printing
public services
retail and wholesale
services (other)
transport and communication

AUTHOR: Sarah Welfare

Our survey of maternity pay policies reveals how employers have chosen to deal with the question of paying employees on maternity leave who work “keeping-in-touch” days.

On this page:
Current advice on payment for keeping-in-touch days
Survey findings: policies in place
Survey findings: most employers pay employee's usual remuneration
Additional resources on XpertHR
Table: Arrangements for the payment of keeping-in-touch days at 43 organisations

Key points

The introduction of the option to work up to 10 keeping-in-touch days during maternity leave was one aspect of the new maternity provisions that were introduced to cover women whose expected week of childbirth (EWC) began on or after 1 April 2007.

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