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Understand your pension responsibilities as an employer. Step 5 : Get Employers' Liability insurance. Find out about Employers' Liability insurance.
Step 6 : Recruit and employ staff. Employ someone. Is this page useful? Maybe Yes this page is useful No this page is not useful. Thank you for your feedback. Report a problem with this page. To have worked for long enough to get Statutory Maternity Pay SMP , you need to have worked for the same employer continuously for 26 weeks by the end of the qualifying week.
This usually means that you became pregnant after you started working with your employer. To calculate this date, count back 26 weeks from the last day of your qualifying week Saturday. Earnings are gross and include wages, overtime, commission and bonuses. It can also include Statutory Sick Pay, maternity pay, or any other statutory family pay e. The reference period is the eight weeks ending before the end of the qualifying week. For monthly-paid employees, normal earnings are those in the last two pay slips before the end of the qualifying week.
For weekly-paid employees, the last eight pay slips before the end of the qualifying week are taken into account. If you are paid monthly , you must add together the two payslips, and divide by two.
Then multiply by 12 to get an annual figure, which you then divide by 52 to get a weekly figure. If you are paid weekly , you add up the total amount paid in the calculation period and divide it by the number of weeks it represents usually eight. To work out entitlement to MA, you need to determine if you meet the employment and earnings conditions.
These they are very different from SMP. In the 66 weeks 15 months before the expected week of childbirth, you must have worked, or been treated as working, for 26 weeks 6 months. These weeks do not have to be consecutive or for the same employer. You can mix employed and self-employed work. The Maternity Allowance claim form has a handy table to help you figure out your test period according to your expected week of childbirth.
When you claim MA, you will be asked to provide proof of income for 13 weeks in the test period. There may be some weeks when you did no work for the agency. This does not mean that you may not satisfy the employment rule. If you change jobs during your pregnancy, you are unlikely to be able to meet the continuous employment rule. But there are circumstances when your employment can be treated as continuous, even if your employer changes.
To qualify for SMP, you must have been earning on average an amount which at least equals the lower earnings limit which applies on the Saturday at the end of your qualifying week.
The lower earnings limit LEL is the amount you have to earn before you are treated as paying National Insurance contributions. If you satisfy both the continuous employment rule and the earnings rule, your employer must pay you SMP. They must pay you SMP even if your contract ends at any time after the start of the 15th week before the week your baby is due.
There are no age limits to qualify for SMP. For example, if you are under 16 and satisfy the rules you can qualify for SMP from your employer. The important date for working out if you can get SMP and how much you can get is the date your baby is due, not when your baby is actually born. Each time you get pregnant you must use the date your baby is due to work out your SMP for that pregnancy. You may be able to claim Maternity Allowance MA instead. We will not reply to your feedback.
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