Maternity rights for school staff

ellesbellesxxx

I am starting Mat leave in a couple of weeks and am a teacher.
As holidays are fixed, you don't accrue them or get paid them in the same way.


However, as someone else said, you just need to be savvy with when you take mat leave. I am starting mine after the hols (so I get paid for them) and will return next easter holiday to get paid for them. Many people start back in the summer hols to get the 6 weeks pay. Although yes, depends on the kind of contract you are on - although most people are salaried over 12 months I guess? I am just going by my experience here

maman

ellesbellesxxx wrote: »

I am starting Mat leave in a couple of weeks and am a teacher.
As holidays are fixed, you don't accrue them or get paid them in the same way.


However, as someone else said, you just need to be savvy with when you take mat leave. I am starting mine after the hols (so I get paid for them) and will return next easter holiday to get paid for them. Many people start back in the summer hols to get the 6 weeks pay. Although yes, depends on the kind of contract you are on - although most people are salaried over 12 months I guess? I am just going by my experience here

You're quite right in the way it applies to teachers.


What the OP hasn't said is the sort of contract his wife is on although many TAs would be on permanent contracts with the salary spread through the year including holidays just as teachers are.


I'd repeat my advice from yesterday.


OP's wife should take this up herself with her employer which is the school in the first instance (unless she's on some central contract). In my LA a teacher tells the Head of her pregnancy who then informs the local authority (via admin staff) and written guidance is sent out. It might be from HR or it might be payroll.