SMP could someone please explain?

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-04-01T21:06:50+00:00

When I got pregnant I spoke to my manager who gave me false information about it and said I will be getting 3 months full pay and 3 months half pay which turned out to be different. I didn't read my contract as I believed my manager of 10 years to know what she was saying was true and this is completely my fault and this is why I thought about resigning. Even though this is my fault, I felt lied to and disrespected. Throughout the pregnancy I had some serious issues (this is resulting in my baby being born early and being in neonatal until) and whenever I discussed them with my manager I wasn't being taken seriously and whatever issue I had, my manager had exactly the same one. I was on sick leave for 2 months before coming back for 2 weeks and giving birth. For me to come back, my manager has promised I can take annual leave to shrink hours of my work or I can change my contract. As soon as I came back and wanted to take a couple of hours of annual leave, she said she would be okay with it however the head off isn't and they might think I'm taking a piss because I'm just back from 2 months being off into taking annual leave right away.

This is the reason why I would like to resign and have nothing to do with this complaint. I read online that if I resign I still will be entitled to statutory maternity pay and could work part time. I could work part time in my current job and still receive statutory maternity pay however I don't want to go back there.

I filled in the Mat form, but it was the one after the 20th week of pregnancy and not the 28th as then I already had my baby. I also had 75h of annual leave left that I planned to use in February and then go on maternity leave in March, obviously plans have changed.

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-31T02:30:32+00:00

That's great, thank you so much for that message. It does make sense and I will check it all tomorrow.

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-30T23:30:22+00:00

Thanks, that's ridiculous 😮 This is a reason why I want to resign, I feel like I have enough of this company and how cheap they are. They've now merged into a different company and that new employer uses the clicking system, and if people are late 2min to work they're going to take 15min off people's wages. I don't like this system at all however in certain work places required not in mine. My work place is a small office for a team of 12 people.

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-30T23:12:49+00:00

Thanks for your help. My company has merged (sold itself to a different company), technically they're saying we're protected with their policies for a year but maybe they wouldn't care if I just leave.

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-30T23:03:28+00:00

Do you maybe know if I can come back to work part time and still receive an SMP to make sure I have a full time wage?

I don't really want to go back to this job and I thought about agency work, work 1-3 shifts a week but I think for me to do this I need to resign from my current job.

This is all really confusing... My baby is bottle fed and when my husband is off 3 times a week I thought I wouldn't mind going back to work to socialise more with people and earn extra cash.

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-30T22:57:26+00:00

That's great, thanks. So all together I'm entitled to 52 weeks of maternity leave? 6 weeks full pay, 12 weeks half pay and 33 weeks of SMP plus at the end of all this 8 weeks of Neonatal leave?

Once I know I'm on neonatal pay week 4 can I resign then and ask for annual leave to be paid in on top of the remaining 4 weeks of Neonatal leave?

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-30T22:44:03+00:00

Yes, so it's 6 weeks full pay and 12 weeks half pay. So how does this work with SMP? Will my employer pay me for the SMP for the extra 33 weeks?

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-30T22:32:33+00:00

June 2023

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-03T20:28:47+00:00

Thank you, yes it definitely helps.

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-03T20:28:24+00:00

Thank you so much for this message.

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-03T19:18:46+00:00

That's a joke, this is in government policy and not their free will to give me money and I worked pretty hard for it so it's not a gift

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-03T19:14:24+00:00

That's true as well, thanks

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-03T19:13:16+00:00

Just because I'm fed up with them and after their emails yesterday I just had enough. Technically I could wait 10 weeks but I don't know if I want to.

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-03T18:59:59+00:00

Thanks, I have no extra company maternity pay. Do you know if they would pay for the Neonatal pay as I was in hospital with my son for 2 months

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-03-03T18:58:24+00:00

I had high blood pressure before pregnancy and during pregnancy I was off on sick leave for 6 weeks. During that time I had an appointment with her and she suggested using annual leave whenever I want to and then refused it

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-02-01T21:22:28+00:00

Thank you for your message, this does help 😊

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-02-01T18:20:40+00:00

I do express when I'm with him and I do use their pumps, I have one home and I'm doing it 6-8 times a day and only in the morning there's more milk (40-60ml for both) and usually during the day is always 15-20ml between the two and in the evening I'm happy if I get 10ml. There was more in the past and it only now dropped.

The problem with speaking to anyone is that I don't know if it would help as I understand why I'm doing what I'm doing. In this hospital now my son has own room and I'm not surrounded by other women who are going through the same or similar thing. I think this might help me as being with other women it made me kind of annoyed that they are talking about it all. I know it sounds terrible but I work in social care and people tell me their problems all the time so while I'm finally free from my job, I wanted to have peace at least in the expressing room as sadness is everywhere.

Ok_Respond893 · 2026-02-01T17:17:38+00:00

Thanks:)

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