Maternity leave and maternity pay

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• Effect of pay rise on statutory maternity pay worked examples

  Type:

  Worked examples

  Three worked examples setting out how to calculate an employee's statutory maternity pay where the employee has received a pay rise during the calculation period.

• Can an employee choose to start their maternity leave on any day of the week?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Does an employee have the right to return to the same job after maternity leave?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Maternity leave curtailment notice

  Type:

  Employment glossary

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Maternity pay and leave: XpertHR survey 2014

  Date:

  11 July 2014

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  The findings of a comprehensive XpertHR survey on maternity pay and leave that examines the practices of 356 employers.

• Letter responding to an employee who is not returning to work after maternity leave

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter responding to an employee who is not returning to work after maternity leave.

• Pregnancy and maternity: Manage an employee's maternity leave and pay

  Type:

  Liveflo

  Use this pregnancy and maternity workflow when an employee informs you that she is pregnant.

• What records relating to statutory maternity pay must an employer keep?

  Type:

  FAQs

• ECJ examines Italian law excluding female workers on maternity leave from a course

  Date:

  25 March 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  The European Court of Justice found that an Italian law that excluded a female worker from a vocational training course, which was necessary for a chance at a promotion, because she was on compulsory maternity leave constituted unfavourable treatment contrary to EU law.

• EU law does not require mothers in surrogacy arrangement to get maternity leave

  Date:

  19 March 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  The European Court of Justice has held that EU law does not require that the commissioning mother in a surrogacy agreement be entitled to maternity leave.