Common use of Entitlement to Paid Maternity Leave Clause in Contracts

Entitlement to Paid Maternity Leave. An eligible employee is entitled to fourteen weeks at the ordinary rate of pay from the date maternity leave commences. This leave may commence up to fourteen weeks prior to the expected date of birth. It is not compulsory for an employee to take this period off work. However, if an employee decides to work during the nine weeks prior to the date of birth it is subject to the employee being able to satisfactorily perform the full range of normal duties. Paid maternity leave may be paid: - on a normal fortnightly basis; or - in advance in a lump sum; or - at the rate of half pay over a period of twenty-eight weeks on a regular fortnightly basis. Annual and/or long service leave credits can be combined with periods of maternity leave on half pay to enable an employee to remain on full pay for that period.

Entitlement to Paid Maternity Leave. (a) An eligible employee is entitled to fourteen weeks at the ordinary rate of pay from the date maternity leave commences. This leave may commence up to fourteen weeks prior to the expected date of birth. It is not compulsory for an employee to take this period off work. However, if an employee decides to work during the nine weeks prior to the expected date of birth it is subject to the employee being able to perform satisfactorily perform the full range of normal duties. Paid maternity leave may be paid: - on a normal fortnightly basis; or - in advance in a lump sum; or - at the rate of half pay over a period of twenty-eight weeks on a regular fortnightly basis. Annual and/or long service leave credits can be combined with periods of maternity leave on half pay to enable an employee to remain on full pay for that period.