Employment Data UK statutory maternity pay

Statutory Maternity Pay (UK) 2011-2012

• Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) is paid for up to 39 weeks:
  
  

  First six weeks	90% of average weekly earnings with no upper limit
  Remaining weeks	£128.73 or 90% of average weekly earnings (whichever is the smaller)

  
  
• SMP may start on any day if the baby is born early or the mother is off work with a pregnancy-related illness.
  
  
• Otherwise the pay period will start from the Sunday following the day the mother last worked before starting her maternity leave.
  
  
• Additional conditions apply — e.g. if the baby is born in or before the 15th week before due date or if the mother's salary varies from month to month.

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