Maternity rights

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Where we work maternity/paternity pay is a fraction of normal pay and the employer makes up at least some of the difference as otherwise the staff would not be able to afford to stay.

For the initial six weeks a woman gets 90% of her pay. Then £140/wk.

Plus tax credits and child benefit and so on.

CLAPTON

I didn't know how good the UK Tory government had made the UK maternity pay/leave which is head and shoulders above much of the EU

I urge everyone to vote 'leave' so prevent the EU from harmonising this with other EU states and leveling down to damage the mothers of the UK.
Act now to save the UK maternity pay system from the EU bureaucrats : vote to leave.

BobQ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

the UK is super-equivalent to the EU in relation to maternity rights and pay so it seems rather odd for "in" supporters to suggest that the EU has delivered greater maternity rights to UK residents. If we aligned ourselves with the minimum required by EU directives and regulations, women would only be entitled to 14 weeks paid maternity leave. You could easily argue that staying in the EU is more of a risk as the EU could pass a regulation saying that women could not have more than 14 weeks paid maternity leave.

That outcome seems as likely as maternity rights being stripped away post-a hypothetical Brexit.

Thanks I had not realised the UK provides more than the EU Directive.

CLAPTON

BobQ wrote: »

Thanks I had not realised the UK provides more than the EU Directive.

but of course, it makes absolutely no difference to your 'logic' to stay.

BobQ

CLAPTON wrote: »

I didn't know how good the UK Tory government had made the UK maternity pay/leave which is head and shoulders above much of the EU

I urge everyone to vote 'leave' so prevent the EU from harmonising this with other EU states and leveling down to damage the mothers of the UK.
Act now to save the UK maternity pay system from the EU bureaucrats : vote to leave.

That would be in the 1999 act ?

CLAPTON

BobQ wrote: »

That would be in the 1999 act ?

no, it would be about the EU
and the obviously current UK situation

and what do you think about the deaths dues to the EU favouring diesel ?

Thrugelmir

Generali wrote: »

If people are going to moan about the iniquities of the system you'd think they'd at least bother to find out what the system is.

Not the money. It's the disruption to the business. A city bank can easily find another trader or a call centre operative. An SME cannot simply recruit a contractor for a year to fill in. To what is often a well oiled and drilled machine.

Majority of ladies in our organisation take the full year. After which they immediately take the minimum of 6 weeks holiday they've accrued.

bugslet

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Not the money. It's the disruption to the business..

Precisely. Only 1% of truck drivers are women anyway, so unlikely to affect that side of the operation, though I do have a woman van driver.

Because of the peculiarities of our work, it takes about three months before a driver gets all the training and clearances that he needs, until then they can only do some of our work, which is pretty limiting. The chance of someone applying that can work fully straightaway has only happened once in 25 years. And of course there is an expense attached to that in terms of training and subsidizing the wages until the driver is fully competent.

I had no idea there was a premium for compensating the employer for the disruption. Usually when the government do something like that, it's pretty notional and not something to be delighted about.

michaels

Don't forget 'maternity' leave is now generally transferable between both parents...sorry bugs

bugslet

I know michaels, but generally speaking the drivers' wives and partners aren't high earners, so it's a no brainer - the driver carries on earning 40k and the drop from the wife's NMW job is not so great;).