Submitted on Tuesday 26th March 2024
Rejected on Tuesday 9th April 2024
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Relevant Departments
Raise the basic rate of SMP & MA to at least the level of National Minimum Wage
Urgently review and raise maternity pay to at least the national living wage or a % of salary.
Today, just over 10% of women benefit from occupational maternity pay. For most maternity leave means a substantial reduction in income to live on less than half of the National Living Wage, or 37% of UK women’s median weekly earnings.
The financial impact is huge, particularly where women are the highest household earners with nearly 3 in 5 surveyed by Maternity Action forced to return early for financial reasons something that has been shown to impact longer term health and wellbeing.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/657524
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