FI14355
Request
- Total number of staff that went on maternity leave since 2012?
- Average length of maternity leave mothers has taken since 2012? E.g. 9 months or 1 year
- Total number of mothers that returned full time to work after maternity leave?
- Total number of mothers that returned to work part time following maternity leave?
- Total number of mothers that did not return to work at all following maternity leave?
- Number of stress absences after turning to work post birth in the first 2 years?
- How many management instructions or disciplinaries related to mothers returning to work post birth? E.g. off for too many periods of time
- What is your policy for staff needing time off to take care of their children or take their children to doctors’ appointments?
- Do staff have to take unpaid leave to take care of their sick children, or do they get paid?
- Do you carry out a health and safety risk assessment for pregnant women?
- What is your maternity pay policy?
- Are women explained their pregnancy rights when they tell their employer/manager they are pregnant?
- Total number of employment tribunal claims since 2012 taken by mothers against the Council for any case with ‘maternity’ or ‘pregnancy’ mentioned since 2012?
- Reason for employment tribunal claims if stated.
- Total number of successful tribunals claims against the Council for any case with ‘maternity’ or ‘pregnancy’ mentioned since 2012?
Response
- 35 including those still off.
- Average length 6.73 months.
- 14
- 17
- 1
- 8
- The Council does not hold this information.
- Employees can use the time-off for family emergencies policy.
- Yes, unpaid leave – where this is not available employees can use either flexi-time or annual leave.
- Yes – this is the employees line managers responsibility when they are notified of the pregnancy.
- The policy states:
4.1 To be eligible for statutory maternity or adoption pay, an employee must have average earnings at least equal to the lower earnings limit for National Insurance contributions. Employees in this position may be able to make a claim for Maternity Allowance.
Subject to 4.1 and to correctly notifying the Council, employees with more than 1 years’ service at the beginning of the 15th week before the EWC (in the case of maternity pay) or at the end of the week in which the employee is notified of being matched with the child (in the case of adoption pay) are entitled to:
- 6 weeks at 90% of average weekly earnings, followed by:
- 12 weeks at 50% of normal earnings in addition to Statutory Maternity / Adoption Pay (SMP/SAP), dependent on entitlement and not exceeding normal earnings, followed by:
- a further 21 weeks at SMP/SAP only, followed by:
- 13 weeks of unpaid Statutory Maternity / Adoption Leave.
4.3 Subject to 4.1 and to correctly notifying the Council, employees with less than 1 years’ service but more than 26 weeks’ service at the beginning of the 15th week before EWC (in the case of maternity pay) or at the end of the week in which the employee is notified of being matched with the child (in the case of adoption pay), regardless of hours of work are entitled to:
- 6 weeks at 90% of average weekly earnings, followed by:
- 33 weeks at SMP/SAP.
4.4 Employees with less than 26 weeks’ service at the beginning of the 15th week before the EWC (in the case of maternity pay) or at the end of the week in which the employee is notified of being matched with the child (in the case of adoption pay), are not eligible for SMP/SAP. The Council will provide pregnant employees in this position with a copy of form SMP1 which may enable the employee to make a claim for Maternity Allowance. Further information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/maternity-allowance/overview.
12 HR send a maternity letter detailing pregnancy rights such as pay entitlement, annual leave, KIT days. Employees also have access to the maternity policy via the StaffHub.
13 Zero
14 Not applicable
15 Zero