Submitted on Thursday 16th July 2020
Rejected on Thursday 23rd July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Extend Maternity / Shared Parental Leave
The UK offers 9 months maternity pay and a further 3 months unpaid. We want the right to request longer off work due to Covid-19. Countries such as Australia allow for an additional 12 months unpaid leave to be requested and reasonably considered by their employer after their first year off.
Many employers 'top-up' SMP provided the parent returns after 12 months, otherwise the money must be repaid. There is no provision to request longer off to:
- take part in parenting activities / family life / leave work early and stay off due to Covid-19.
- Solve childcare problems for those unable to use grandparents / day care.
- Encourages fathers to take shared parental leave.
- Give options if partner faces redundancy.
Also creates jobs by extending the contracts of those covering leave.
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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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Extend maternity leave by 3 months with pay in light of COVID-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306691
Extend Paternity Leave by 3 months with pay in light of Covid-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/317745
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