I am due to start my maternity leave next week (on my due date) and have just received a letter from my current employer stating that my current role is being made redundant. The only role they can offer me is more hours and in a different location - which is not what I want. Please can you advise what redundancy rights/package I would be entitled to (I have worked 4.5 years with them - so am assuming i get four weeks stat redundancy pay). However, am I entitled to this aswell as my full SMP for 9months? If I take the redundancy package and SMP, am I then restricted to when I start applying for another job?)…
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Hello I have been working for my employer for six months. I am six weeks pregnant, my company is considering making redundancies. I would like to know please, whether I will qualify for statuory maternity pay if I am made redundant. Thank you.…
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I am on maternity leave and am about to be made redundant (it is definite as the company will be closing). I was due to return to work at the start of my 17th week, but as this coincides with when the redundancies will be officially announced, I am able to withdraw my offer to return and receive the full 39 weeks of statutory maternity pay (SMP). In the redundancy proposal letter it states 'The notice period will be calculated as the period from 13th July to 31st July plus your statutory minimum notice period'. After contacting my boss about whether I would receive SMP, he emailed me saying 'If you were to choose to carry on with maternity leave and you were to be made redundant you would get maternity pay up to 31 July, the date on which you would be made redundant. At this point you would have used 19 weeks of maternity leave. Therefore, on redundancy, you would be entitled to your statutory notice period of two weeks normal salary, plus a lump sum of SMP equal to (39 weeks less 19 weeks = 20 weeks x £124.85 = £2,497), plus the redundancy pay of 10 weeks times normal salary, plus whatever you choose to do on the options.If you chose this route you would lose out on full salary for the period from 12 July to 31 July as you would be getting SMP instead'.
Is this correct? I thought that as 13-31 July was a notice period, I would be payed for that in addition to the statutory two weeks. However, I know nothing about redundancy and so need help. They want my decision in two days' time. Thanks.
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I'm currently on maternity leave getting satutory maternity pay. In my time on maternity leave I have started a business as a sole trader. I'm pretty sure my employer know this now as we use the same social networks. Am I jeopardising my maternity pay by starting this business?…
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I am pregnant and working reduced hours for reduced pay whilst I get treatment for a medical condition that is covered by the Disability Discrimination Act. I hope to be increasing my hours/pay over the next 6 months. However, I have been told that my maternity pay will be worked out whilst I am on reduced hours/pay, so I will not get what I will be earning the day before I go on maternity leave, but what I had been earning several months prior (i.e. quite a bit less!). This does not seem fair. But can I do anything about it? I understand that if I were to get a pay rise within the time I am on maternity, they have to recalculate SMP and pay me the difference, but not a pay increase due to increased hours worked? I.e. I was working part-time then changed to full-time but I will only get the part-time wage whilst on maternity leave?
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