Submitted on Tuesday 12th March 2019
Rejected on Tuesday 26th March 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Grant full time students access to a Maternity Allowance (updated)
Many full time students who fall pregnant or give birth during their studies, are unable to access statutory maternity pay or allowance. These are one of the few groups of women who are missing out on their maternity rights. Let’s give full time students access to maternity allowance (update below).
The lack of access occurs when a student hasn’t worked in the qualifying period - you can see how that works here (see maternity allowance and statutory maternity pay):
https://www.staffsunion.com/advice/money/financeguides/parents/
We suggest full time students should automatically have access to maternity allowance or that a special allowance be drawn up to accommodate these cases that provides equivalent support.
Update- UPSU voted to support the campaign so we need to restart the petition
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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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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/232609
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