Maternity Holiday Pay ???????

liney

You accrue holidays whilst on maternity, but they are paid based on the lower earnings.

For arguments sake if you were on maternity for 26 weeks they should pay you 10 days hols at your normal rate and 10 days hols at yoru lower maternity rate pay assuming 20 days per year.

Savvy_Sue

Are you sure about this liney?

We've had a couple of colleagues take maternity leave in the memorable past, and they've taken their full paid holiday entitlement as well as whatever maternity leave they were entitled to. As india says you're not necessarily entitled to be paid for it, you can be required to tag it onto the beginning or end of your maternity leave, or take it at other times during the leave year.

But if you are being paid for it, I think you'd be paid at your 'normal' rate of pay rather than at a reduced rate.

liney

Holiday pay is always worked out on the basis of your average basic pay, so yes, that would mean that your average basic pay for 6 months would be SMP; therefore reducing the amount due to be paid for holiday pay accrued in those 6 months.

My thats a long sentence...

Savvy_Sue

Well, if you say so, BUT I believe any pension contributions your employer makes have to be based on your 'normal' pay rather than your SMP. Which is why it surprised me to learn that holiday pay calculations would NOT be based on your 'normal' pay.

Plus, if you are on sick leave for long enough to no longer be receiving full pay, and then take some paid leave (which you are entitled to do because you still accrue holiday until you've been off for over a year), your holiday pay is surely calculated on your 'normal' salary not your reduced salary?

And presumably if you take the leave after you're back at work, you'd be paid at your normal rate?

It all gets so complicated it's not surprising employers find it hard to keep up ...

lbl

Hi Everyone, first time user so please accept any appologies for any mistakes that I am possibly going to do in advance!!!
I am about to go on adoption leave, begining of April my employers have told me that I am not allowed to have any of my annual leave, no payment either! I am a lecturer and I currently have 30 days outstanding. They say I can't have any leave before adoption date as I cannot be spared from the team and they have no duty to carry over holidays as the year runs out end of August. I am hoping to take my 9mths leave entitlement, they are now saying that my annual leave will not be full leave from sept 07-aug 08 because of being on maternity leave, is this correct.

Please help, the pressure is starting to taint my experience of being a mum after a 6 year wait.

Louise1521

Where I work we're entitled to accrue annual leave when on paid maternity leave. I would have thought this applied to everyone.

kelloggs36

Whilst on Ordinary materinity leave (the first 6 months) then you accrue annual leave at your contractual rate. After this, if you take the full year, then you accrue maternity leave at the statutory rate of 20 day's per year (which would work out at 10 days if you take the full 26 weeks of ADDITIONAL maternity leave). However, if you work for the civil service, they don't agree that this law applies to them!!!!

Louise1521

Very true, as you say the Civil Service don't allow you to accrue annual leave on unpaid maternity leave. However, on the plus side, we do get full pay for 6 months.

lbl

Anyone out there work for an FE college and have problems like me with no hoilday entitlement to be given from the remaining 30days I have or any payment offer, they keep saying tough!!!! I have worked so hard for them and the can't even give me what I have earned, no effort towards it.
The union just seem to shrugg their sholders, what can they do if the college refuse??/
Any help please

Jo_R_2

lbl wrote: »

Hi Everyone, first time user so please accept any appologies for any mistakes that I am possibly going to do in advance!!!
I am about to go on adoption leave, begining of April my employers have told me that I am not allowed to have any of my annual leave, no payment either! I am a lecturer and I currently have 30 days outstanding. They say I can't have any leave before adoption date as I cannot be spared from the team and they have no duty to carry over holidays as the year runs out end of August. I am hoping to take my 9mths leave entitlement, they are now saying that my annual leave will not be full leave from sept 07-aug 08 because of being on maternity leave, is this correct.

Please help, the pressure is starting to taint my experience of being a mum after a 6 year wait.

lbl - read http://www.eoc.org.uk/Default.aspx?page=15310 afaik the rules apply equally over adoption and maternity leave. It explains things clearly and having had some maternity trouble at work, I found the EOC to be really helpful, give them a call, they helped me over the phone and sent me shedloads of flyers about maternity-related stuff, and told me to call back if I had any more trouble.