Maternity leave and maternity pay

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• Type:

  FAQs

  Under the maternity provisions can an employee return to work at the end of ordinary maternity leave without giving notice?

• Type:

  How to

  How to respond to an employee's notification that they are pregnant

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

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer terminate the contract of an employee on maternity leave?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employee take on paid work during their maternity leave?

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Compulsory maternity leave

  A table setting out the compulsory maternity leave periods.

• Type:

  FAQs

  On what day of the week does statutory maternity pay start?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employee take a period of paid holiday in between their ordinary maternity leave and additional maternity leave?

• Type:

  FAQs

  How does an employer determine an employee's right to statutory maternity pay?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer make informal enquiries of employees on maternity leave about whether or not they intend to return to work?

• Date:

  23 June 2006

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Sex discrimination: Pro rata reduction of contractual bonus for ordinary maternity leave not discriminatory

  In Hoyland v Asda Stores Ltd [2006] All ER (D) 133 CS, the Court of Session holds that despite being described as "discretionary" a bonus scheme was "regulated" by the employee's contract of employment and therefore fell outside the scope of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.