A guide to maternity benefits : statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance / issued by the Benefits Agency, prepared by the Central Office of Information.

  • Great Britain. Benefits Agency
Date:
1992
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: A guide to maternity benefits : statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance / issued by the Benefits Agency, prepared by the Central Office of Information. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    your employer’s trade, business, or undertaking is transferred to another employer or by orunder an Act of Parliament, one corporate body takes over from another as your employer or your employer dies, and his or her personal representatives or trustees keep you on in employment or there is achange in the partners, personal “ representative or trustees who employ you or you move from one employer to another at a time -when the two employers are associated employers, that is if one is a company of which the other (directly or indirectly) has control, or if both are companies of which a third person (directly or indirectly) has control | or you are a teacher in a school maintained by a local education authority, and you move to another school maintained by the same authority (including maintained schools where the governors of that school, rather than the local Education Authority is your employer). More information is available in the Department of Employment’s leaflet PL 699 Employment rights on the transfer of an undertaking, which you can get from Jobcentres and Unemployment Benefit offices. If you satisfy both the continuous employment rule (see 7 page 8) and the earnings rule (see page 7), your employer! must pay you SMP even if your contract ends either at the | start of your maternity absence or at some time during the | maternity pay period (MPP). lf you are taken into legal custody at any time in your MPP, your employer no longer has to pay you SMP. Legal| custody means detained by the police, usually arrested — and/or in prison. Your entitlement to SMP is not affected if you voluntarily help the police with their enquiries. ee
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