Iam currently in full-time employment and begin my Maternity Leave at the end of April, I receive 6 weeks at 90% of my salary (which will take me to mid June this year) and the remaining 33 weeks as SMP (which will take me to the end of Jan next year). Due to a recent change in my husband's career we are due to move abroad for 2 years in Thegeneral rule is, if you work for another employer (who is not liable to pay you statutory maternity pay) whilst on maternity leave, you lose your entitlement to Inour company if an employee is going to be out for that long then the account has to be disabled and all email goes to the person designated by the employee's manager. Having an hourly person access email after hours or when on vacation or in this case maternity leave we have been told is a violation of labor laws. Annualleave cannot be taken during maternity leave and the employer must therefore allow the employee to take her full holiday entitlement outside her maternity leave period. The ECJ has ruled that member states must ensure that employees can take their statutory annual leave at a time other than their maternity leave. The court held Theseand other employment law-related questions can be answered by our attorneys. We also assist with disciplinary action hearings, CCMA presentation, litigation, and dispute handling. Get expert legal guidance regarding employment law in South Africa. Contact us at reception@ on (011) 234 2125. RepublicAct (RA) No. 11210, or the Expanded Maternity Leave Law, was signed by President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Feb. 20. Female workers in the private and public sectors can now enjoy a total of 105 days’ paid maternity benefit for live childbirth, regardless of the mode of delivery, with an option to extend for another 30 days without Parentalleave is currently set to a maximum of 26 x the number of the contractual working hours (e.g., if officially working 40 hours per week the employee has the right to 26 x 40 hours of parental leave = 1040 hours). It is generally unpaid and can be taken by both individual parents up until the child reaches the age of 8 years old. Failureto meet your obligations. The Employment Rights Act of 1996 lists redundancy as one of the five potentially fair reasons for dismissing an employee. However, if your employee demonstrates that they were dismissed because they were pregnant or on maternity leave, this is considered an automatically unfair dismissal. Article30. 1. A female worker shall be entitled to a maternity leave of (60) sixty days as follows: A. The first (45) forty-five days with full pay. B. The next (15) fifteen days with half pay. 2. Its made up of: You do not have to take 52 weeks but you must take 2 weeks’ leave after your baby is born (or 4 weeks if you work in a factory). Use the maternity planner to NWrvJO.