| MATERNITY
RIGHTS
To check your own
maternity rights, or those of your employees, use the TIGER interactive website
which covers both the existing and the new rights. The
website also includes an interactive calendar to help with
planning leave and a form to help with notifying employers
about maternity leave intentions.
Guidance giving information on the rights for pregnant
women:
Maternity rights: a guide for employers and employees, detailed
guidance in
pdf format  285Kb]
Detailed guidance is also available in Welsh [pdf
format 355Kb)]
Model letter for
employers to acknowledge notification of
maternity leave (MS Word 23Kb)
Other useful guidance
Health and Safety for
new and expectant mothers
Information on Health and Safety Executive
website
Suspension from work on
medical or maternity grounds (PL705)
Guidance
on rights about maternity suspension
Inland Revenue forms
for employers of mothers
Start dates
Legislation
Monitoring
For information on how the working parent
laws introduced on 6 April are being
monitored, click here.
[Information in Welsh is also available.]
History
Maternity leave –
changes: a basic summary (PL507)
A
short guide for employers and employees
(PL507 is also available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Greek,
Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Somali, Turkish,
Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh).
Information
on other rights of working parents
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