MATERNITY RIGHTS
Maternity rights
are changing: new maternity rights will benefit those women whose babies are due on or after 6 April 2003.
To check your own maternity rights, or those of your employees,
use the TIGER interactive
website which covers both the existing and 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 women whose babies
are due before 6 April 2003:
Maternity rights: a guide for employers and
employees (PL958 Rev 7)
(1.2Mb)
Detailed guidance on maternity rights [Welsh
version (355Kb)]
Guidance giving information on the rights for women whose babies
are due on or after 6 April 2003:
Maternity
rights: a guide for employers and employees (PL958 Rev 9) (610Kb)
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).
Model
letter for employers to acknowledge notification of maternity
leave (MS Word 23Kb)
Other useful guidance
Small firms factsheet
A short guide on maternity rights for employers
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.]
Information
on other rights of working parents
