Extend the payments for women who are on maternity leave.

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

If people can be paid 6 months in full if they're sick why cant women be paid in full for the first 6 months or 90% at least of their childs live to stop them falling into debt.

As a mum and a teacher i have worked for more than 10 years in my profession. I have had a second child and many women between the age of 30-40 dont return to the classroom or work because of childcare costs or not being able to afford basic living costs on maternity.

This puts people in debt and women are simply being penalised.
Change the maternity payment system to one that is fairer.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand that you want rights to maternity pay to change, but it's not clear how exactly you want current rights to be changed.

Currently Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) is paid for up to 39 weeks. Mothers get:

- 90% of their average weekly earnings (before tax) for the first 6 weeks
- £151.97 or 90% of your average weekly earnings (whichever is lower) for the next 33 weeks

We could accept a petition calling for changes to these rules, but you would need to be clear what you wanted the new entitlements to be.

Your petition refers to people getting full pay for six months when they off sick, but people are only entitled to £96.35 per week Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) if they're too ill to work. This is paid for up to 28 weeks. Workers may be entitled to more maternity pay or sick pay in their contract.

Timeline

23 Feb 2022	Petition opened for signatures
28 Feb 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13

Status Rejected

Rejected 28 Feb 2022

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