What happens if you don't tell work you're pregnant in time?

[anita665]

Everywhere I've read that you must tell your employer that you're pregnant 15 weeks before the week of your due date but I was wondering what happens if you don't? I can't find anywhere which tells you.

 

[LegoHouse]

I'd assume it'd effect maternity pay rights?

 

[TTCabundle]

Yes, it just effects your maternity pay rights x

 

[anita665]

Thanks, I suspected it did but couldn't find anywhere that actually said that.

 

[Mummy Bean]

I had to hand it my matB1 form then otherwise smp would be affected. and affected right for maternity leave and job security. Any reason u wouldnt to tell them, or any way u would be able to hide it...unless u got a small bump?

 

[Rags]

If you look up the ugov website they go through all the ins and outs. I used it a lot when I was drafting my letter to my employers. If I remember rightly it has a planner where you can put in your due date and it calculates the dates when you should do each thing.

 

[missmayhem]

all depends why.... if you've just found out you pregnant at a late stage then not much they can do, but if you are keeping it from them that may be different.


I never told my work on time but luckily my MW put the date on my MATb1 form wrong, meaning i carried on to the next week.........

 

[babyhopes2010]

ud have to prove u didnt know until after 25 weeks.which does happen\\! a friend of mine was 33weeks

anyway u need to tell them b4 25 weeks or ur smp wont be paid

 

[missjennakate]

If you didn't realise you was pregnant before then (don't know how that would be possible) then I think there is a loop hole.

 

[scotskid]

I don't work, but I have a friend who had a lot of problems with what to do and when, and if memory serves (she later wuit her job on doctor's orders - they were horrible & putting her under a lot of stress) if you don't tell them, you only get the mandatory two weeks all new parents get. Four if you work in a factory.