Shared parental leave
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From what I’ve been told you have to wait for occupational/enhanced pay to run out before you start shared parental leave or it will stop and you’ll go down to SMP?
Ffs 😩 I convinced myself it would still be paid and scheduled it to be sent to my head and HR for the morning. I guess I’ll find out when we have a meeting. My thought was that by saying the OMP won’t be paid to the partner, it implies that it will still be paid to me.
Have you used the website? They’re meant to be very good at helping with all of this?
@Nikita I left it too late for my SPL to start after Easter. I guess I’ll find out when I have a meeting with HR.
I really recommend using the SPL website for teachers, they work out the best time for you to take the leave and fill all the forms in for you. I'm sure they've worked mine out where I start SPL when I'm on 50% + SMP as it falls over the school holidays so I'm better off forgoing that and getting full pay
Unless your school has a separate policy for SPL and offers Occupational/Enhanced Shared Parental Pay, rather than just Occupational/Enhanced Maternity Pay, you lose any further Occupational/Enhanced Pay when you curtail your Maternity Leave unfortunately. So when you go on to SPL after curtailing mat leave and having your 'return to work' period, you will get ShPP, which is the same amount as Statutory Maternity Pay, not carry on the previous schedule of Enhanced pay.
Once you move to SPL you cannot receive OMP even if you haven’t received it all.
The only thing it says is “OMP will not be payable to the partner of the mother where SPL is being taken”