eSignature Legality for Pregnancy Leave Policy in United Kingdom

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to be incited to paid maternity leave a woman needs to have been working for the same employer for 26 weeks when they get to the end of the 15th week before the expected risk of childbirth or very roughly speaking they need to have been employed by their employer for over a week before they fall pregnant also they need to be earning over the minimum for national insurance purposes which is currently 116 pounds per week and those who need to give their employer some notice which is a minimum of 28 days before they plan to take the maternity leave legally women are entitled to a maximum of 52 weeks maternity leave and of that 33 weeks are paid statutory maternity pay is the minimum amount set by the government that your employer has to pay and to a woman who's on maternity leave at the moment it's 90 percent of the woman's pay for the first six weeks of their maternity leave and thereafter for the last thirty three weeks it's 145 pounds 18 per week at the current rate however that's just the statutory minimum and many companies offer more than this under a enhanced maternity policy men are entitled to two weeks maternity leave and that paid a statutory rate the same as such a maternity paid some 145 pounds and 18p per week and that can be taken as a one-block of one week or two week Rach rather than the woman taking a longer period of maternity leave a couple does have the option to take shared parental leave and this is where the father of the child or the woman's partner could be in an adoption case they actually share some of the leave the first two weeks also always has to be taken by the mother for medical reasons but the remaining 50 weeks can be shared between the mother and the mother's partner in different blocks and of course there's notice provisions in terms of what you have to add let the employer know but it could be taken there's two separate blocks perhaps the woman first then the man second or the other way around the partner I should say or attentively the two partners can actually take shared when to leave at the same time if they wish so whether a woman's entitled to return to the same job after she finishes maternity leave depends upon how long she's taken off of work first of all if she has less than 26 weeks or firm maternity leave she's in total to go back to exactly the same job or on exactly the same terms as when she left however if she takes more than 26 weeks in maternity leave she's entitled to return to the same job as before unless it's not reasonably practicable for her to return to that role which could be say if there's been a reorganization within the business in those circumstances she's entitled to return to a different role which is suitable for her and on no less favorable terms than when she left you