Who Pays?

[Cupcake]

Maternity Leave...Government or Employer? Not sure if that's a silly question

Tried to google it and all i could find was "who gets paid maternity leave"

TIA xo

[Doing my best]

Govt pays baby bonus, but if you are entitled to paid maternity leave, that is paid by your employer (depends on your contract, very few have it if private enterprise).

[Cupcake]

Thanks for the reply;

i know its still early days for me but thinking of the budget and the way the company i work for is going at the moment i dont know if they could afford to be paying me when im not there IYKWIM tis a worry...

[briggsy's girl]

at this point, mat pay, if your entitled to it, is employer funded. many people aren't entitled to it

you are entitled to up to 52weeks of mat leave under federal law - well, it's actually parental leave - dad can take some of it, just can't BOTH take it at same time - but whether you are paid or not is entirely up to you employer at this point.

ETA - if it's in your contract/award that you're entitled to X weeks maternity pay, they have no choice but to pay you hun

[Muppity]

Your company will have standard conditions which may or may not include paid mat leave. Unless it is really small and it has never come up before.

You are legally entitled to 12 months unpaid leave even if they dont' give you any paid mat leave.

[Doing my best]

You should also be able to get Family assistance, but it will depend on your DH's wage and your wage for the financial year.

The fortnightly baby bonus has helped us 'survive' but had we had a lump sum, we would already have finished things off (e.g gates for the yard to keep DD in, and the last security door).

Some suggestions in other threads have been to try and live on single wage now and save yours, or pay off as much as you can (e.g credit cards, store cards, car loans). We have our mortgage, a credit card, and an investment loan that we are paying. We made sure everything else was paid while I was still working.

[Cupcake]

Once i get far enough along or start with the MS i will let people at work know then discuss options; its a small office so if i start vomiting (even before being pg) people ask questions lol.

I think its a good idea to have everything paid off! Will go snooping for those other threads too thanks HM!

Ive been with the company 3 years; 3.5 by the time bubs will be born so im pretty sure im entitled to it; there was a girl about 18 months ago that went on maternity leave i want to ask her what they did but dont want to let the cat out of the bag just yet lol

[HotI]

do you have access to your employment HR policies? they usually have maternity info available there.