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The Council and the General Board give notice that they have agreed a revision of the policy covering maternity provision for all groups of staff in order to comply with changes to statutory provision contained in the Employment Act 2002. The revised policy will apply to all female employees whose expected week of childbirth begins on or after 6 April 2003. The statement will be circulated to Heads of Institutions and will also be available on the University's website (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/personnel/policy/maternity.html). They have agreed that the following text should replace their Notice on p. 660 of Statutes and Ordinances.
All women University officers shall be entitled to eighteen weeks' maternity leave with stipend and, in addition, up to thirty-four weeks' unpaid maternity leave. Since the statutory paid provision has been extended to twenty-six weeks, payment of the standard rate of Statutory Maternity Pay or Maternity Allowance (included in the payment of full stipend for the initial eighteen weeks) will, for those eligible under statutory regulations, continue for the first eight weeks of the unpaid leave provision under the University's maternity policy. It is recognized that not all University officers in this situation will wish to take the maximum period of leave, since, as a condition of dispensation, they will be precluded from undertaking any teaching, administrative, and examining duties for the University or for a College, or any other employment during the paid period of maternity leave. (Under current legislation no woman may resume work earlier than two weeks after giving birth.)
Maternity leave should normally commence no earlier than the eleventh week before the expected date of childbirth. A University officer who intends to take maternity leave shall give notice of that fact by the fifteenth week before her expected week of childbirth, through the Personnel Consultant assigned to her institution, to the Registrary if she holds an office under the supervision of the Council, or to the Academic Secretary if she holds an office under the supervision of the General Board. Maternity leave will be granted under the provisions of Statute D, II, 6(b). Employer's contributions to USS will be continued for the period of paid leave; during any period of unpaid leave an officer may maintain her USS contributions by paying both the employee's and the employer's contributions. Stipend increments will accrue in the normal way during leave. Funds will be made available by the General Board to provide substitute teaching for staff on maternity leave.
A term which includes maternity leave will be reckoned as a term of service for the purposes of Statute D, II, 5.
Further detail is contained in the policy statement.
In the light of the new right to paternity leave and pay under the Employment Act 2002, the Council and the General Board give notice of the existing, more favourable University paternity leave provision offered to eligible employees of up to two weeks on full pay, provided that satisfactory arrangements can be made to cover the absence at no additional cost to the University.
Further details on this and other family-related leave provisions, including flexible working, adoption, parental, and emergency leave, will also be available on the University's website (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/ personnel/policy/).
The Council give notice that, after consultation with the University and Assistants Joint Board, they have published a revised version of Rules J, Leave and Pay, which sets out the provisions of the maternity policy statement and other family-related leave. Copies of the revised Rules will be circulated to Heads of Institutions together with the maternity policy statement. Further copies are available on request from the Personnel Division.
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Cambridge University Reporter, 19 March 2003
Copyright © 2002 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars
of the University of Cambridge.