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baalamb 
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 10:54am |
My mum seems to think you get some sort of pay out from your employer when you return to your job from which you took maternity leave. Can anyone clarify, confirm or deny this???
Thanks  I've applied for a part time job and mum reckons I should go back to my full time position for just a week so I can get this pay out. Only thing is, I would feel guilty about doing that and the reality is that we just cannot afford to wait unil June.
This part time role is paying more per hour than the full time one, just with obviously less hours.
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kebakat
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 10:57am |
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Each workplace is different but HR have told me that if I return from maternity leave they will pay me 6 weeks worth of wages in a lump sum. (but I think there is some conditions that come with it)
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 11:01am |
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Yip, Stacey is right, depends on your contract. We get one, but only after 12 months I think it is, and it is 14 weeks pay less what you got on maternity leave from the government.
If you have a copy pull out your contract, you never know what may be hiding in there!
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 11:02am |
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Never herd that Kirst before, but you will need to check it out. Ikeep debatin the work thing ,but cause I don't drive and we will lose more thne we gain it not worth it with 2 kiddies. Plus hubby is abit male marcho about him being the man and earing the money (sorry totally OT) Good luck tho hope it work's out good fou you guy's.
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 12:17pm |
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we get it at work i think its up to the employer and not a compulsary thing they have to do. I get 6 weeks (but think they have just put it up to 3 months pay) pay out if I stay with the company for a year after you return.
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 1:53pm |
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I think it also depends on what your contract said. I got paid my 6 weeks when I went on leave rather than if I returned.
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 2:01pm |
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Sounds like you might need to check out the situation from your payroll person at work. I haven't heard of it before but I suspect it will be conditional on what maternity leave or Parental Tax Credit you have already received.
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 2:50pm |
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my work will pay me one months full salary after I have been back at work for 6 months (roll on march!).
There is nothing in employment legislation to make an employer pay/give you anything just for going back to work after maternity leave. I personally think the govt should pay you something as an incentive for returning to work and not claiming a benefit!
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:02pm |
My employer didn't offer anything like that (smallish company) but I know of a major bank that does - I THINK something like three months after you return. Its an incentive to get you to come back to work after maternity leave
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:12pm |
Each company seems to be different with how/when they offer those sorts of things, if at all. Mine was 6 weeks pay on producing Amelia's birth certificate ... I went and sorted that before xmas and it helped buy a new bed, some plants for the garden and of course xmas pressies!
Anyway, you should find your contract out as it'll be in there if you are entitled to anything. Or if you can't find it and have a friend at work, ask them to look into it for you if you feel a bit embarrassed. 
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:20pm |
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Might have to look at my contract, but somehow i don't think anything like that is in my contact...stink...
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:50pm |
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Yeah I don't think it says anything of the sort in my contract either. The maternity leave section of the contract says 'refer to Act such and such' so I guess if there's no standard incentive, then there won't be any at all. I will ask my boss to look into it for me. She's expecting a resignation I think. Sucky company I work for. They need to sort out their HR dept.
I don't think I'll be returning even if they did have some incentive for me. I would have been looking elsewhere for work if I hadn't fallen pregnant with Ashlee.
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 4:37pm |
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I used to work for a pretty large company and I don't think they had any entitlements to entice us back from maternity leave, but the silver lining to being made redundant was the payout I got. I'm not sure on what to do about work yet either, as I am thinking of starting study again in July.
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 5:10pm |
ohh jax what will you be studying i,m thing of going back to work parttime but i,m unsure of what i would like to do and would have to work around james aswell i wiould of gone back to work if my job hadpaid anuff for me and james to live 
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 5:33pm |
Don't feel too bad - I don't get an incentive either as part of my contract and I don't think there is any legislated benefit as such. Wish there was as I'll be returning to work pretty quickly anyways. 
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 10:06pm |
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it doesnt have to be in a contract and the company does not have to offer this to you...in fact where they do offer to "top up" wages if you dont return or leave within a certain time there is often a repayment clause they will insist on...often these are sep contracts to your employment contract or merely a letter of conditions...they simply do not have to offer you anything except govt mat leave...nor do they have to offer a return to work incentive! sorry!
I wish mine would offer to top me up but they havent ...yet know other companies that have...and know one that was recently stiffed when mum returned from 6 months top up and refused to work same hours and left...and they had no agreement to get it back..so in effect she got 6 months normal wages out of them...i think that was kinda stink of her...and now company is anti maternity leave top ups...
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Posted: 09 January 2007 at 10:35pm |
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Posted: 10 January 2007 at 8:41am |
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Just because it's not in the contract you should still ask someone. It's not in my contract at all and I wouldn't have known about it had I not had a meeting with HR about what the company expects from me when I get far along.
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Posted: 10 January 2007 at 10:58am |
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Can't say I have heard of this before either. I've been debating the whole returning to work thing as my 12 months is up in February. I so don't know what to do. Don't think I will go back to my old job if I do as I only want to work part time. Child care is going to be another thing - the cost etc and if it is really worth going back to work. So many things to think about.
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Posted: 10 January 2007 at 1:27pm |
yay jax i was thinking of doing that butt am still undecied at the mo bestof luck with your corse
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