Clause 1 - Maternity pay period
Work and Families Bill
10:45 am
Sadiq Khan (Tooting, Labour)
To follow on from the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Dundee, West, is there not a problem in that someone could take a very short period of time off for maternity leave in order to get back to work as soon as possible so as to get a “windfall” by receiving the contractual pay entitlement as well as statutory maternity pay for the period when they are entitled to that? That would encourage people to go back to work sooner, when the purpose of the Bill is to allow mothers to spend more time with their newborn child.