Redundancy because a colleague is on Maternity Leave

prowla

DontBringBertie wrote: »

And yes – I would be entitled to redundancy pay since I’ve been there 3.5 years, so not the end of the world. As long as I can find another job…

3.5 years won't get you a lot of redundancy pay.


The calculator is at: https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-redundancy-pay


I think it is 1.5 weeks pay per full year worked, capped at something like £500 per week. Plus your notice (which they may wish you to work), plus holiday entitlement.


So, you could make £1500 extra over leaving of your own accord.

Comms69

prowla wrote: »

3.5 years won't get you a lot of redundancy pay.


The calculator is at: https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-redundancy-pay


I think it is 1.5 weeks pay per full year worked, capped at something like £500 per week. Plus your notice (which they may wish you to work), plus holiday entitlement.


So, you could make £1500 extra over leaving of your own accord.

It depends; the NHS pay 1 month per year; so 3 months wages

prowla

Comms69 wrote: »

It depends; the NHS pay 1 month per year; so 3 months wages

Yes - I was talking statutory rates.

DontBringBertie

Yeah it’s 1 month per year in our policy. Tax free of course.

nicechap

DontBringBertie wrote: »

Yeah it’s 1 month per year in our policy. Tax free of course.

Unless you're outside the UK, only the first £30k is tax free.

silvercar

sangie595 wrote: »

With the exception of the two weeks (unpaid) compulsory maternity leave (six weeks for factory workers), maternity leave did not become universal until 1993. Off the top of my head, it was 1999 when the law on redundancy and maternity leave was enacted after case law found that simply making women redundant because they were on maternity leave was unlawful.

A years maternity leave entitlement was 2006.

It was before 1993. In 1990 I had maternity leave. The law then was 6 weeks at 90% of full pay plus a further 12 weeks at about £45. You had the right in law to take up to 40 weeks maternity leave.

sangie595

silvercar wrote: »

It was before 1993. In 1990 I had maternity leave. The law then was 6 weeks at 90% of full pay plus a further 12 weeks at about £45. You had the right in law to take up to 40 weeks maternity leave.

Actually, please read what I said. Universal maternity leave was not enacted until 1993. What you had does not mean that everyone had it.

The UK introduced maternity leave legislation through the Employment Protection Act 1975, which was extended through further legislation, such as The Employment Act 1980. However, for the first 15 years, only about half of working women were eligible for it because of long qualifying periods of employment. In 1993, coverage was extended to all working women, in order to bring Britain into compliance with a European Commission directive on this issue.

So no, "you" did not have the right to maternity leave in law. Some women had the right to maternity leave beyond the compulsory period, that having been introduced in, I think, the early 1900's.