Eventually we've managed to get Gem's maternity leave sorted out. She is employed as a casual by Caerphilly County Counsel. She's on a casual contract because the day centre where she works need the staff but are to cheep to pay for permanent members of staff. Gems been on a casual contract for 9 months and one of the people she works with had been on one for 2 and a half years. Seems a bit funny when in the paperwork we got did state that the maximum time that a person could be on a single casual contract was 13 weeks.
Anyway that's not the point, The point is that after telling work about the baby 5 months ago they have eventually told us what she's entitled to.
The Counsel will pay Gem 90% of her weekly wage for 6 weeks and then statutory maternity pay for 33 weeks after that. We've also come to the decision that Gem will start her maternity leave from the 31st of this month.
She doesn't plan on returning to full time work once the little one is born. I'd like to say we could live on just the money I bring in but that's not possible and based on Gems current wages if Gem worked full time and we put the little one in to a nursery we would get about £10 a week extra because child care is so expensive. We're not really sure that's what is best for the little one or Gem.
At the moment it looks like once the maternity pay has finished Gem will get a job she can do in the evening or one where she can work from home. We're looking in to delivery jobs. The way it works is for parcel companies to deliver a hole bunch of parcels for our local area to Gem and then Gem would distribute them. She'd be able to do this with the Baby.
As for me I get 2 weeks of paternity leave, 1 at full pay and 1 at statutory paternity pay. My plan is to use up to a week of my annual leave so I go back on the second Monday after the birth.
It's getting closer, only 7 weeks to go now.
Write back to work for me.
Take care.
Nick.
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