Maternity/Shared Parental Leave Clarification

[Trapid]

Evening Everyone,

My wife and I are expecting our first child next year and we've being looking into what were entitled to with regards to leave.

I've done some research and would appreciate it if someone could confirm or deny what I believe to be true.

What we'd like to do is - Wife takes 6 months maternity leave on the enhanced maternity pay until the enhanced rate ends. Then myself take the last 3 months of leave and heading back to work. Working out to 9 months maternity in total between us which would all be coved with pay.

I used this document to work out the above and it seems to match up, but a second pair of eyes never hurts! -
https://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/mrm/Bei ... ummary.pdf

Cheers,

[POSTMAN]

1st of all I can't believe you used that document from my mrm page!
For full details, ask your manager for a copy of the maternity, paternity, adoption or parental and shared
parental leave policies and guides available in the ‘Policy and information’ section on PSP. Also see Time
off: other leave and Flexible working summaries.

And 2nd, seems right but bar 2 weeks it's all unpaid as you can probably see.

Also see this...

To qualify for leave you must tell your employer in
writing at least 15 weeks before the beginning of
the week when the baby is due or within 7 days of
being told by the adoption agency that you have
been matched with a child. You must tell your
employer:
• when the baby is due or when the child is
expected to be placed with you for adoption;
• whether you want one or two weeks leave;
• when you want the leave to start.
You must give your employer 28 days notice
of the date on which you want your Statutory
Paternity Pay (SPP) to start. You can also change
your mind about the date on which you want your
SPP to start by giving 28 days notice.

https://www.cwu.org/media/6663/cwu__130 ... tsheet.pdf

[Trapid]

Thanks for the reply,

I'll catch up with my manager tomorrow and ask him to print the documents you mentioned.

And 2nd, seems right but bar 2 weeks it's all unpaid as you can probably see.

- Would you mind expanding on this a little I feel like I may have missed something here?

I understand I'd get 2 weeks paid paternity leave and then go back to work until my wife goes back to work after 6 months. But from the way I read/interpreted it, if my wife goes back after 6 months there should still be 3 months of SSP at standard rate available to take, which I assumed would be payable to me if I'm the one on leave?

[rogersh]

I believe you have understood the information correctly. If required further explanation;
https://www.gov.uk/shared-parental-leav ... -youll-get

What you'll get
If you’re eligible and you or your partner end maternity or adoption leave and pay (or Maternity Allowance) early, then you can:

take the rest of the 52 weeks of maternity or adoption leave as Shared Parental Leave (SPL)
take the rest of the 39 weeks of maternity or adoption pay (or Maternity Allowance) as Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP)

[POSTMAN]

Apologies, I am unaware of the ssp thing and just saw the 2 weeks pay thing.
Please let us know what actually happens for future reference.
Thanks and good luck.

[weary_posty]

We had a member do this

Wife had 6m husband 3m + 2 weeks

The 2 weeks was at full pay and the 3 months at statutory which from memory was around £120-130ish

Don’t quote me on the exact figures