Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP)
Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP)
Statutory maternity pay (SMP) is a measure of earnings replacement paid by employers to women while they are absent from work in the last weeks of pregnancy and during the first few weeks after the baby is born. It is for women who are or have been employees with the same employer for a continuous period of six months.
A woman who qualifies receives:
an earnings related payment currently 90% of her normal weekly pay over a certain period for the first six weeks
a standard rate payment for the following 20 weeks.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: proper noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary: HR and Payroll
- Industry/Domain: Accounting
- Category: Payroll
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Video games Category: Rhythm games
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero is a series of games where the player is tasked with mimicking the notes of the song being played. It uses special large plastic ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
pmss1990
0
Terms
1
Blossaries
0
Followers
Medecine: Immunodeficiency and pathophysiology
Category: Science 2 22 Terms
Browers Terms By Category
- Algorithms & data structures(1125)
- Cryptography(11)
Computer science(1136) Terms
- World history(1480)
- Israeli history(1427)
- American history(1149)
- Medieval(467)
- Nazi Germany(442)
- Egyptian history(242)
History(6037) Terms
- Health insurance(1657)
- Medicare & Medicaid(969)
- Life insurance(359)
- General insurance(50)
- Commercial insurance(4)
- Travel insurance(1)
Insurance(3040) Terms
- Electricity(962)
- Gas(53)
- Sewage(2)
Utilities(1017) Terms
- Wedding gowns(129)
- Wedding cake(34)
- Grooms(34)
- Wedding florals(25)
- Royal wedding(21)
- Honeymoons(5)