Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999

Maternity leave and pay: your entitlement explained

Working out maternity leave and pay can feel like decoding a different language while you're already stretched thin. This guide sets out the entitlement rules in plain terms.

Redundancy and family leave: your right to be offered a suitable role first

If your role is being made redundant while you're on maternity, adoption, shared parental, neonatal care, or bereaved partner's paternity leave, you may have a stronger right than you think: first refusal on any suitable alternative role, ahead of everyone else at risk.

An employee had worked for her local authority employer for around 12 years when the council began a redundancy and reorganisation exercise shortly after she started her maternity leave.

An employee was on maternity leave when her employer restructured her department.

Sacking a pregnant employee on invented charges timed to dodge her maternity pay is one of the most serious forms of discrimination there is.

If you’ve been treated unfairly because of pregnancy or maternity, here’s what the law protects

Pregnancy and maternity discrimination protection starts on day one of your job. Here is what the law covers, and what to do if you think it has not been followed.

If you’re made redundant on maternity leave, your employer must actually offer you a suitable role, not just a chance to apply for one.