11 weeks before the beginning of the week your baby's due.
Your leave can start as early as eight weeks before your baby is due. Maternity leave can run as long as 17 weeks after your baby's born. Some provinces offer different numbers of weeks for maternity leave. You can find your province's amount on our chart of maternity leave by province. In most provinces, you can apply for maternity leave up to eight weeks before your baby is due. Some provinces allow you to start maternity leave as early as 11 weeks before your due date. Check with your province's ministry of labour if you are interested in going on mat leave early. Maternity leave can run as long as 17 weeks after your baby's born. Some provinces offer different numbers of weeks for maternity leave. You can find your province's amount on our chart of maternity leave by province. Female employees have a right to four months maternity leave when they are pregnant. By law your employer is not obliged to give you paid maternity leave, but you are entitled to four consecutive months of maternity leave. The maternity leave may begin at anytime from at least four weeks before the birth of the baby. If you have been contributing to UIF, you are eligible for a maternity benefit of up to a maximum amount of 60% of your remuneration (lowest amount of replacement income is 38%) depending on the level of your income. Benefits are paid for a maximum duration of 17.32 weeks (121 days). You can start maternity leave any time from 11 weeks before the beginning of the week your baby's due. You can bring the date forward if you need to take time off work for pregnancy-related reasons within four weeks of the expected birth date. Your employer may make you start your leave from then. To claim your right to maternity leave, you must tell your employer about your pregnancy no later than 15 weeks before your baby is due. You can work this out by finding the Sunday before your baby is due, and then counting back 15 weeks. You should tell your employer: Your employer may want you to put this in writing. You don’t have to take 52 weeks but you must take 2 weeks’ leave after your baby is born (or 4 weeks if you work in a factory). Use the maternity planner to work out the dates for your ordinary and additional leave. You may be entitled to take some of your leave as Shared Parental Leave. Usually, the earliest you can start your leave is 11 weeks before the expected week of childbirth. Leave will also start: 1  the day after the birth if the baby is early. 2  automatically if you’re off work for a pregnancy-related illness in the 4 weeks before the week (Sunday to Saturday) that your baby is due.  1. Maternity Allowance is usually paid to you if you don’t qualify for Statutory Maternity Pay. The amount you can get depends on your eligibility. You can claim Maternity Allowance as soon as you’ve been pregnant for 26 weeks. Payments can start 11 weeks before your baby is due. Any money you get can affect your other benefits.  Unpaid mat leave can start 17 weeks early. EI also has sickness benefits which you can apply for which can give you up to 15 weeks of sick time (this time stacks on top of the Mat Leave and the Parental Leave which in essence could give you up to 65 weeks instead of the regular 52). The way I interpreted it, was that you can leave when you are about 25 weeks pregnant. I think you get something like 15 or 17 weeks pregnancy leave, and then 35 weeks maternity leave. If you save them up, though, you get almost a full year with baby. sondie24. You can't take sick leave until you are atleast 25 weeks pregnant and would need a dr. note. Otherwise, you can't go on maternity leave until you are 32 weeks pregant. They also do not have to approve the sick leave, I was taken off work early and they denied me. You can go off work any time you want to but it will not be paid until these minimums are met and you have enough hours worked to qualify. The way I interpreted it, was that you can leave when you are about 25 weeks pregnant. I think you get something like 15 or 17 weeks pregnancy leave, and then 35 weeks maternity leave. If you save them up, though, you get almost a full year with baby. The earliest that you can start your maternity leave is 11 weeks before your expected week of childbirth, which is when you are about 29 weeks pregnant. To ensure that you get all your rights, you should use the due date given on the MAT B1 pregnancy certificate that your midwife or GP will give you. As long as it does not fall more than 11 weeks before your baby is due, it is generally up to you when your maternity leave begins. You can even choose to work right up to the date the baby is born. You should note that the start of your maternity leave might be triggered automatically if:
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