Going back to work benefits
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Topic: Going back to work benefits
Posted By: baalamb
Subject: Going back to work benefits
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 10:54am
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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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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 10:57am
| 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) |
Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date 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 By: 11111
Date 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.
------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: AnnC
Date 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. ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: CuriousG
Date 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. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: busymum
Date 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. -------------  |
Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date 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! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
 
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Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:02pm
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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 ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: luna
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:12pm
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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.  ------------- Selina http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Deez
Date 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... -------------  
Lycan and Peyton = Moon and back!! |
Posted By: baalamb
Date 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. |
Posted By: jax
Date 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. ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater 
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: james
Date 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 ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: yummymummy
Date 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.  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date 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... |
Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 10:35pm
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Lu - I will most likely be doing a diploma in Massage Therapy with a few other bits and pieces like basic aromatherapy and reflexology thrown in etc. I see a course advisor on Friday, to see what my options are as far as timetables and classes go. ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 10 January 2007 at 8:41am
| 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. |
Posted By: LockieandLiam
Date 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. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 10 January 2007 at 1:27pm
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yay jax i was thinking of doing that butt am still undecied at the mo bestof luck with your corse ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 10 January 2007 at 2:26pm
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i can get my payment as soon as i return to work or after a year, if i get it straight away and leave before a year they make you pay all or some of it back so best to wait till your years up. i get 3 months worth of wages if i did. tempting but as i was full time and unsure if i can job share or be part time i don't think i want to go back full time. but will see closer to the time. ------------- Ann
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |