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View full libraryOur Maternity Leave and Pay Policy Template outlines the company's provisions for maternity leave, pay entitlements, and return-to-work arrangements, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and supporting expectant mothers throughout their pregnancy and beyond.
If you are reviewing your family leave arrangements, these parental policy templates give you a practical set of policies covering notification, eligibility, planning, leave and return to work.
1 Statement
1.1 [Company's] employees are its most valuable resource in delivering excellent services to our customers. [Company] is keen to recruit and retain high performing and talented employees through supporting them where possible and appropriate in balancing the needs of home and work life. To reflect this commitment [Company] provides good maternity leave arrangements which [meet minimum requirements | in places, exceed what the law requires].
2 Overview
2.1 This policy sets out the procedures to be followed for taking maternity leave and sets out expectations, benefits and entitlements to ensure that employees and managers have a clear understanding of, and comply with the relevant procedures.
3 Scope
3.1 This policy is applicable to all employees of [company name].
4 General principles
4.1 You are free to choose when you would like your maternity leave to start, however, the earliest you can chose to start your maternity leave is during the 11th week before the expected week of your childs birth.
4.2 In certain circumstances, your maternity leave may start automatically earlier than the date you chose as the start date for your maternity leave. This applies where you are absent from work wholly or partly because of pregnancy at any time during the four weeks before the expected week of childbirth or if you give birth early.
4.3 Eligibility
Pregnant employees will be entitled to take 26 weeks Ordinary Maternity Leave and 26 weeks Additional Maternity Leave, irrespective
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Darryl Horn, Chartered HR Director
Darryl is a Chartered HR professional with over 25 years' experience in senior HR and employee relations roles.
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