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Paternity Leave

Howdy,

Random question of the day. What is the maternity pay at your workplace? And what is your entitlement?

I recall getting a choice of either 1 or 2 weeks which had to be taken in one lump and it was full pay.

I'm looking to see if that's the norm or if I was lucky

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  • You were lucky in that most employers would only pay the SPL payment of £140 per week.
  • At my old place Paternity leave was 2 weeks on full pay and didn't have to be taken as a 2 week chunk, could be split up over a certain time period.

    For my first born I also took parental leave and had the summer off with him - that's unpaid though.
  • Took it back in March.

    2 weeks off (but I was given the option to split it into 2 to have at any time in the first 12 weeks?) but only got statutory pay
  • fuck me, never existed when my kids were born, gonna get shot down here but as a employer it's a pain up the feckin arse.
  • I would have got statutory paternity pay with the jobs I was in both times.

    Bad time to drop down to getting paid £140 a week, so I just saved up my leave and took two weeks holiday both times.
  • fuck me, never existed when my kids were born, gonna get shot down here but as a employer it's a pain up the feckin arse.

    I've got 2 staff members coming up and was surprised when HR told me it was £139 per week.....didn't realise I was so lucky.

  • Can you not split it now if you want between mother and father?

    https://www.gov.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-pay/overview
  • WSS said:

    Can you not split it now if you want between mother and father?

    https://www.gov.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-pay/overview

    That's a different and additional right from Statutory Paternity Leave
  • edited December 2015
    Three weeks full pay for paternity leave here, can be split into weeks, but must be taken in the first year
  • I got 2 weeks full pay, split or one block, choice was mine. Seems it varies from place to place.
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  • Rothko said:

    Three weeks full pay for paternity leave here, can be split into weeks, but must be taken in the first year

    Nice. Civil service?

  • I offer time and a half not to go off
  • I offer time and a half not to go off

    That's not the spirit !
  • I offer time and a half not to go off

    Homewrecker.
  • They let me take 2 weeks full pay but logged in every now and then to check everything was ok.
  • It's more important to have the ability to pay for your off spring than be there

    If they really moan they can have time and 3/4s and they can work their lunch and finish early
  • I was under the impression that legally 'fathers' got 2 weeks full pay now from birth
  • I was under the impression that legally 'fathers' got 2 weeks full pay now from birth

    Nope - https://www.gov.uk/employers-paternity-pay-leave/entitlement
  • I got 2 weeks full pay & also took 2 weeks holiday to get a ahole month off :wink:
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  • edited December 2015
    Can I get it back dated for 35 years?
  • 2 weeks. 4 days full pay the rest statutory pay of a hundred and something a week. A pittance really!
  • 2 weeks. 4 days full pay the rest statutory pay of a hundred and something a week. A pittance really!

    It is to get you used to the fact that you are going to have NO money, after your child is born
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