Clause 1 - Maternity pay period
Work and Families Bill
10:30 am
Norman Lamb (Shadow Secretary of State for Trade & Industry, Trade & Industry; North Norfolk, Liberal Democrat)
I beg to move amendment No. 10, in clause 1, page 1, line 7, after ‘weeks’, insert
‘; but a woman taking maternity leave who takes less than the maximum prescribed period is entitled to receive the same total amount of statutory maternity pay that she would have received had she taken the maximum prescribed period, paid so far as practicable by equal weekly instalments.” ’.