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The Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 sections 164-171 contain rules relating to the level of pay for people while on maternity leave. s 165, the maximum paid maternity leave period can be set at [52 weeks]. s 166, statutory maternity pay is 90% of one's normal average weekly earnings for 6 weeks.
The benefit is paid by the employer, normally in the same way as you are when are working. If contractual maternity pay is paid then the two will be combined. It is taxable. The employer can recover at least 92 per cent of the SMP they have to pay, and 100% for small employers.
Women who are unable to get Statutory Maternity Pay may be instead entitled to Maternity Allowance. This money is paid by the government rather than an employer. A claimant has to have worked 26 weeks within the 66 weeks before their due date, and have earned at least £30 a week for 13 of those weeks to qualify.
Women should receive the equivalent of the national minimum wage of £10.42 an hour, ministers were told.
The Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021 (c. 5) is an act of Parliament that allows ministers and paid opposition figures to take up to six months maternity leave at full pay. History [ edit ]
If parents adopt, then the rights to leave follow maternity rules for one primary carer. [137] However, for fathers ordinarily, the position is less generous. The Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002 entitle a father to 2 weeks leave, at the statutory rate of pay. [138] Both parents may also take "parental leave". [139]
Under the Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999 [14] mothers must take compulsory leave at the time of child birth for two weeks. After that comes a right to 6 weeks' leave paid at 90 per cent of ordinary salary. Then is 20 weeks' leave paid at a rate set by statute, which was £123.06 per week in 2010.
Kemi Badenoch has distanced herself from the comments and does not have the power to decide Tory Party policy.