Maternity leave and maternity pay

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• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to employee who suffers stillbirth explaining their maternity rights

  A model letter to advise an employee who has suffered a stillbirth after 24 weeks' pregnancy of their entitlements in respect of maternity leave, parental bereavement leave and sickness absence.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to employee whose baby dies after birth explaining their maternity rights

  A model letter to advise an employee whose baby has died after birth of their entitlements in respect of maternity leave, parental bereavement leave and sickness absence.

• 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:

  Employment law cases

  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:

  FAQs

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

• Type:

  How to

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

  Practical guidance on managing an employee who is absent due to sickness during pregnancy, including avoiding pregnancy and maternity discrimination; statutory sick pay; calculating SMP; and when maternity leave will be triggered by pregnancy-related absence.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Form for employee to notify that they are absent from work in the four weeks before expected week of childbirth wholly or partly because of pregnancy

  A model form to allow an employee to inform you that their absence is for a pregnancy-related reason after the start of the fourth week before the expected week of childbirth.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Form for employee to notify employer of early birth where maternity leave has been triggered by birth

  A model form to allow an employee to notify you that they have given birth before the start of their maternity leave.