Your other rights in pregnancy

Can I go back part-time?
You have the right to ask for part-time or flexible hours and your employer has a duty to seriously consider your request. Your employer must have a good business reason for refusing. If you or your partner want to work part-time or to change your hours, please see Child-friendly working hours.

My maternity leave ends soon and I?m pregnant again. What rights will I have?
Maternity leave does not break your continuity of employment, so your right to maternity leave for this baby will be based on your total service with your employer. You may also qualify for SMP as long as you meet the normal conditions. However, this will mean you will have to be receiving more than the weekly lower earning limit from your employer in approximately weeks 18-26 of your pregnancy when SMP entitlement is calculated (see Money).

If you have already taken OML and AML (a year off) you will be entitled to a second period of OML and AML. However, if you go straight onto another period of OML without physically returning to work and decide to return to work after the second period of OML, you will not have the right to return to exactly the same job as you normally would at the end of OML. However, you will have the same rights as you would have had at the end of AML, which is the right to return to the same job or, if that is not reasonably practicable, a suitable alternative job on similar terms and conditions.

If you return to work after the end of your first period of AML and before the start of your second period of OML - even if you only return for one day - your rights are not affected and you would have the right to return to exactly the same job after OML (see Return to work section).

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