Maternity leave and maternity pay

New and updated

• Date:

  21 August 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Enhanced redundancy protection for pregnant employees and new parents: Overview for employers

  The Government is pressing ahead with plans to extend the period during which pregnant employees and new parents are entitled to be offered any suitable alternative vacancy if they are being made redundant. We look at how the law will change and the headaches that the amendments could cause for employers.

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Length of statutory maternity leave

  A table summarising employees' entitlement to ordinary and additional statutory maternity leave.

• Date:

  28 May 2019

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: Common issues during maternity leave

  Issues that can arise during maternity leave range from the mundane, such as keeping lines of communication open, to the dramatic, such as putting an employee at risk of redundancy. We discuss common scenarios during maternity leave, and how to deal with them.

• Date:

  25 April 2019

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Pregnancy sickness - managing absence issues successfully

  Jo Broadbent, counsel knowledge lawyer at law firm Hogan Lovells, discusses the legal framework protecting pregnant employees and the health and safety considerations employers should be aware of.

• Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Maternity leave and pay

  Updated to include the increase in statutory maternity pay in force from 5 April 2020.

• Date:

  13 March 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  Maternity leave: Redundancy form sent to employee's inaccessible work email address

  In South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust v Jackson and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that, as long as the miscommunication came from an administrative error, an employee whose redundancy redeployment form was sent to an inaccessible work email address was not unfavourably treated because she was on maternity leave.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Statutory maternity pay and other family-related statutory pay rates increase

  Updated to reflect that the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2019 has been finalised.

• Type:

  FAQs

  What should an employer do if an employee fails to give the required notice for taking maternity leave?

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter offering a suitable alternative vacancy to an employee who is made redundant while on maternity leave

  Updated to include information on the Government's proposals to extend redundancy protection for employees during pregnancy and after maternity leave.

• Type:

  How to

  How to manage an employee who is absent due to sickness during pregnancy

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.