I am due to be a father again. What we can get our head around is how my leave will affect my partners maternity pay from her employer. She only gets 3 months useful occupational pay before this tapers to almost nothing. If I took 6 weeks off at the start would this then reduce her occupational pay by 6 weeks?
Congrats. This was the case for me and my employers terms, but it might be more general. I would check with her employer. So if my wife wanted to take more of her occupational pay at the start, it would have reduced the number of full occupational pay I could receive. It would have been nice if it was additional!
@mohammed bentaleb Thank you. I'm a civil servant which offers a very generous 6 months full pay ShPP. My partner is a higher earner by some margin but only receives one month at full pay. We can't really afford to do without her salary whilst she is close to the maximum. So we may have to wait a few months before I take mine if this is the case but it seems crazy to me that I would have to do that. It just seems so counterintuitive to what SPL was trying to achieve.
@@leefoster8015 i'm a civil servant as well so maybe my case is directly applicable. I also found it annoying that this is the case, so I ended up taking my occ pay and my wife took unpaid leave. Otherwise her occ pay would have eaten into mine and it was lower. I think the policy is there to stop all men taking their occ leave / pay as default, which would be a no brainer if it was additional to their partners. I do think they should change it so that it is additional for at least for the first 39 weeks - that would be a good compromise.
Hi, very helpful video thanks for this. Any updates since then? I am working in a factory for more than 2 years and my partner(mother) is self employed for 3 years. We notice as a self employed is not really worthed to have maternity leave so I would like to take the whole paternity leave? Could I take that 52 weeks just myself? So she will not get paid for anything...is still classed as a shared parental leave?
Hi - yes, she will have to take 2 weeks by law after giving birth, but you can then take the remaining 50 weeks. The shared parental leave policy can be divided however you want, including you taking it all! Good luck!
Hi - i am a civil servant. So any Government department and some government agencies as well. Yes, i am very lucky to hav ea good parental leave policy. My wife's was pretty poor, so it made sense for me to use mine!
tbh while watching I thought the video had 100k+ views and you're a popular blogger, thanks to the quality of the video and its content. Keep it up!
Thanks, that's very kind! I hope it was useful :)
Good video, simple clear explanation 👌
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. I’m expecting soon and keen to make use of SPL as my maternity leave from work isn’t that great. Thanks for the insight!
Thanks. Once you understand the details it can work out quite well and give you a lot of flexibility. Best wishes for everything!
Great video. Thank you for helping me understand 👍🏻. Hope all is well with your partner and children.
thanks, hope it goes well for you!
Thank you for this
No problem 😊
Iv been asked to fill in a matb1 form to go on paternity leave as a husband because my wife is giving birth abroad, how do I do this
Thanks for explaining this 🙌🏽
👍no worries - it can get pretty confusing! took me a while to get my head around it all
Thank you
hope it was useful.
Well explained 🎉
I am due to be a father again. What we can get our head around is how my leave will affect my partners maternity pay from her employer. She only gets 3 months useful occupational pay before this tapers to almost nothing. If I took 6 weeks off at the start would this then reduce her occupational pay by 6 weeks?
Congrats. This was the case for me and my employers terms, but it might be more general. I would check with her employer. So if my wife wanted to take more of her occupational pay at the start, it would have reduced the number of full occupational pay I could receive. It would have been nice if it was additional!
@mohammed bentaleb Thank you. I'm a civil servant which offers a very generous 6 months full pay ShPP. My partner is a higher earner by some margin but only receives one month at full pay. We can't really afford to do without her salary whilst she is close to the maximum. So we may have to wait a few months before I take mine if this is the case but it seems crazy to me that I would have to do that. It just seems so counterintuitive to what SPL was trying to achieve.
@@leefoster8015 i'm a civil servant as well so maybe my case is directly applicable. I also found it annoying that this is the case, so I ended up taking my occ pay and my wife took unpaid leave. Otherwise her occ pay would have eaten into mine and it was lower. I think the policy is there to stop all men taking their occ leave / pay as default, which would be a no brainer if it was additional to their partners. I do think they should change it so that it is additional for at least for the first 39 weeks - that would be a good compromise.
Useful video- Thank you👌
glad it was useful
Hi, very helpful video thanks for this. Any updates since then? I am working in a factory for more than 2 years and my partner(mother) is self employed for 3 years. We notice as a self employed is not really worthed to have maternity leave so I would like to take the whole paternity leave? Could I take that 52 weeks just myself? So she will not get paid for anything...is still classed as a shared parental leave?
Hi - yes, she will have to take 2 weeks by law after giving birth, but you can then take the remaining 50 weeks. The shared parental leave policy can be divided however you want, including you taking it all! Good luck!
hey where do you work? not specific address but which company?? They give 26 weeks FULL PAY?! That is MAAAAAD. Sooo lucky.
Hi - i am a civil servant. So any Government department and some government agencies as well. Yes, i am very lucky to hav ea good parental leave policy. My wife's was pretty poor, so it made sense for me to use mine!