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The Covent Garden HR Buddies is an initiative facilitated by Clarkslegal to offer the London HR community the opportunity to meet with like-minded peers, attend relevant seminars and workshops and boost your knowhow of the issues specific to this sector.
 
It’s free and open to anyone interested in HR. It sets its own agenda, so it can be purely social or facilitate presentations to help prevent HR problems for companies in the London area. So if you want to network face to face contact
buddy@clarkslegal.comClick here for further details about our next HR Buddies event.  

If, alternatively, you wish to network online with other HR professionals, then using the discussion forum below, is your ideal opportunity to do so.

Please feel free to post new queries or questions, and/or reply to ones already posted. All you have to do is register a few details, then you will be ready to post your thoughts.

You can post a new query by selecting the tab "new thread". To reply to a post, select that post and then choose the "reply" tab.

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creynolds
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Maternity changes
Posted: 06 Oct 08 11:49 AM
This week buddy was asked:  I am aware that changes to maternity leave entitlement came into force yesterday.  What were theses changes, and how will they effect our business?
creynolds
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Re: Maternity changes
Posted: 13 Oct 08 3:19 PM

Buddy says:  The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Maternity and Parental Leave etc Regulations 1999 were amended earlier this year. The changes are relevant to those whose expected week of childbirth (EWC) is on or after 5 October 2008. As this date has now passed, in practice, the new rules will now apply to almost all employees.

 

The changes mean that there is now no distinction between ordinary maternity leave (OML) and additional maternity leave (AML). OML lasts for the first 26 weeks of maternity leave. AML follows immediately after and lasts for a further 26 weeks, giving a total entitlement of 52 weeks' statutory maternity leave. 

 

Previously, only employees on OML received the benefit of the terms and conditions that would have applied to them had they been at work, with the exception of remuneration (i.e. wages or salary). Now these benefits must also be provided during AML.

 

Employer information:  Employees will also now continue to accrue statutory and contractual holiday entitlement during both OML and any period of AML.

 

There have been no recent amendments to statutory maternity pay. This is still payable for up to the first 39 weeks of maternity leave - i.e. it ceases to be payable for the final 13 weeks of AML.

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