When did you resign from work?

For those that went on maternity leave and didn't return to work, when did you formally resign from your job?

Not until just before I was due to return back. I think about a month before I was due to return I gave notice.

you cant resign until paid parental leave is up or else you lose it. if you resign during that is when the payments stop but you dont have to pay it back.

you may already know but don't resign before your 14 weeks of pp leave is up or you don't get the payments. I resigned 4 months before due to return.

I was also made redundent but would've quit about 4 weeks before I was due to go back otherwise

I'm not resigning til mid December - due back in Jan 11

I resigned 4 weeks before I was due back at work. If you know now you're going to be resigning I would just hand my notice in soon as the PPL finishes.

Edited by misscheeky

I resigned perhaps a month before I was due to go back. In my opinion it is best to keep your options open as long as possible 'cause who knows what might happen in the interim - even if you are pretty sure you don't want to go back.

In saying that though I was careful to be non-commital when I periodically spoke to my employers during maternity leave. I didn't want them relying on my actually coming back or not.

Seeing you've changed cities it's pretty obvious to yourself that you aren't going back to that job. But like everyone else I didn't resign until a month or two before I was due to go back. Just in case I needed to.