ok not understanding!

[pa2k84]

Hoping it just my mind not being able to process and that this really is simple but what the flip does....

employed by the same employer continuously for at least 26 weeks into the 15th week before the week your baby is due

mean!?

 

[LankyDoodle]

It means that by the time you are 25 weeks pregnant, you should have been employed by your employer for 26 weeks (ie the week before your last period more or less!). It also means that if you left your job after the 25th week (resigned), they would have to pay your SMP.

 

[amylk87]

I got confused over this! I seen a website that explained it well...

Find the sunday before your due date...
Go back 15 weeks from that sunday (this is your qualifying week)

If you have been working 26 weeks up to that qualifying week, you are entitled to maternity pay

 

[pa2k84]

Thank you - still not all making much sense to me.

My baby is due 16th May and have been told i will need to work till at least middle of April to qualify for smp - i stared working for my employer middle July so from reading what you have said wont have to work that late?

(by the way am very aware fell pregnant very soon after starting new job not 100% intentional been off birth control for approx 3 years just fell at bad time - VERY happy though)

 

[amylk87]

From what i worked out, you must have been working from the 2nd of August, so i think you qualify

 

[pa2k84]

I have been told i do qualify just a little confused as to the earliest i can start my leave from. I work as a nanny so job not too strenuous just long hours 7.30-6.30 plus 20-30 min drive on that either way and exhausted now at 14-15 weeks so no idea how i will cope 24 weeks onwards.

 

[louise1302]

when you are 15 weeks pregnant you need to have worked for your employer for 26 weeks therefore you need to have been there for 11 weeks when you got pregnant
hth

 

[suzib76]

I have been told i do qualify just a little confused as to the earliest i can start my leave from. I work as a nanny so job not too strenuous just long hours 7.30-6.30 plus 20-30 min drive on that either way and exhausted now at 14-15 weeks so no idea how i will cope 24 weeks onwards.

if you qualify you qualify hun but it has no bearing on when you can take mat leave from, the earliest is 29 weeks

 

[special_kala]

you qualify for maternity pay but i think their talking about the earliest you can go on maternity leave which is 29 weeks

by my calculations you should be allowed to go on maternity leave from mid march not april

 

[pa2k84]

Mid March sounds perfect!

I actually know that the family are planning to move end March but they are not telling me think they maybe hoping i will quit. When found out though perfect they move and i start my maternity just decide partway through my maternity that i won't be going back as they too far away - a little sneaky i know but can't afford to quit before hand.

 

[kitty1987]

I fell pregnant about a week and a half after starting work and i qualified x

 

[Kacie]

You should definitely qualify from what i can calculate. I also think you can start mat leave from 11 weeks before your due date which would put you at the beginning of March I think.

You may also be able to take any unusued holiday before your leave as well so you could leave that little bit earlier.. but you would need to check that with your employer.

xx

 

[pa2k84]

to be honest knowing they moving end march would be happy to stay with them till then just really worried me her saying i would have to work till mid april as dont think i physically could. She runs her own business and knows a lot more about maternity rights than i do and just to want to understand it all so i dont get duped by her.

 

[LankyDoodle]

Thank you - still not all making much sense to me.

My baby is due 16th May and have been told i will need to work till at least middle of April to qualify for smp - i stared working for my employer middle July so from reading what you have said wont have to work that late?

(by the way am very aware fell pregnant very soon after starting new job not 100% intentional been off birth control for approx 3 years just fell at bad time - VERY happy though)

This isn't right. You can leave work 11 weeks before your baby is due, so for you that is 28th February. You have to have been working for this employer for 25 weeks by 31st January, so you should have started with that employer by or before 2nd August 2009. They will work out your SMP entitlement based on your average earnings between weeks 17 and 25, so for you that is between 6th December and 31st January (up to the last pay day before 31st, which for most WILL be the 31st), so whatever you earn in those 8 weeks, they will take an average of that and you will get 90% of that for the first 6 weeks of your leave. It has nothing to do with when you leave on maternity as you are still employed by them when you go on maternity.

If you started this job after 2nd August, then your employer will need to give you SMP1 form once you have given them your MATB1 which will confirm they cannot pay it and why. You will then need to apply for mat allowance and send the SMP1 form with your application, and claim MA from the govt any time from 28th February onwards (as you are entitled maternity leave from 29th week).

 

[pa2k84]

Thank you all very much really put my mind at ease. Next time i actually se and manage to have a conversation with her will specify when i would like to start my leave from and write up letter accordingly.

 

[LankyDoodle]

I used to be a full time nanny so I know what it's like!