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Maternity pay

Eleanor

Hi all,

We are looking to change/improve our maternity and paternity pay. At present we pay Occupational Maternity pay for the first 6 weeks, paying full pay for those first 6 weeks. After that we pay SMP for the next 33 weeks.

We are really interested to find out what maternity package other companies offer their employees by way of comparison.

Many thanks!

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  • Hi Eleanor,

    We are currently looking into this at the moment as well. At the moment we offer 12 weeks full pay, after that the remaining 27 weeks are SMP.

    However, we are looking to offer enhanced maternity package. So we are thinking to offer SMP to employees who have been with us for less than a year and enhanced maternity package for employees who have been with us for over a year. Enhanced package would be 12 weeks full pay and 12 weeks half pay to start off with but we would like to improve this even more in the future.

    Many women do tend to leave the company if the maternity package is not good enough so this is on our priority list.

    I hope this helps!
  • in reply to Zerina
    Hi Eleanor and Zerina,

    I'm also looking at enhancing our maternity package at the moment, as we also only offer the statutory minimum. I wondered if either of you had gone ahead with enhancing since March, and although still early days, how that had been received by your employees so far?

    Thanks
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  • in reply to Zerina
    Hi Eleanor and Zerina,

    I'm also looking at enhancing our maternity package at the moment, as we also only offer the statutory minimum. I wondered if either of you had gone ahead with enhancing since March, and although still early days, how that had been received by your employees so far?

    Thanks
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