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  How to

  How to arrange cover for an employee's maternity leave

  Practical guidance on arranging cover for an employee's maternity leave, including fixed-term workers; secondment; acting up; arranging the handover; and the employee's return to work.

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  FAQs

  Where an employee has given notice to vary their maternity leave start date, how should the employer respond?

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  FAQs

  Can an employee who does not have average weekly earnings of at least the lower earnings limit claim any financial assistance throughout their maternity leave?

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  FAQs

  Does an employee who wishes to exercise their right to statutory maternity leave have to give their employer all the required information at the same time?

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  FAQs

  What notice of the date that they want their statutory maternity pay to begin do employees have to give?

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  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Benson, Rebekah Martin and Poppy Fildes, associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

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  FAQs

  Are employers obliged to accommodate requests for lengthy breaks several times a day for the purpose of expressing milk?

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  FAQs

  Where an employee in the early stages of pregnancy is frequently off sick, how should the employer handle the situation?

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  FAQs

  Where an employee notifies their employer that they are pregnant after they have given notice of their resignation, will they be entitled to statutory maternity pay?

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  FAQs

  Where a risk to a new mother has been identified that cannot in itself be avoided, what is the first step that the employer should take?