Disadvantages of being a girl?

Yes - they can reclaim 92% of the SMP back (or 103% for small businesses). Acting like paying 8% of someone's pay for 6 months is going to bankrupt you when you're retaining a trained member of staff is ridiculous. If you didn't pay SMP then you'd STILL have to cover the recruitment and training costs. Still no reason to illegally ask questions about someone's plans for a family or to discriminate against women (especially now shared parental leave is a legal requirement so fathers can take months off too)

For additional benefits above the SMP minimums it's perfectly legal to have a minimum time for eligibility and a minimum time after returning within a contract. That's something an employer CHOOSES to offer and that they can reclaim if (as the person I replied to implied) people were choosing not to return from maternity leave.

Your so mean to yourself. 😅

I had that meme last week but different. 😂😂😂

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4841290&page=4

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You smart. You loyal. You grapefruit. He's a meme now 😂

Right... so instead of not having someone go on maternity leave....

You now have to pay 8% of someones wage, another person to replace them and also experience low productivity while they A) Train the replacement and B)When the individual returns after work. Wow really giving employers encouragement there aren't you!

And if you get additional benefits, why shouldn't a company ask you repay it if you do a runner?

I'm not against maternity pay, just think there should be bigger safeguards for employers and probably increase the minimum time to be eligible for maternity pay to something like 18 months or two years.

😂😂😂
Not into memes though, more YouTube.

You're missing out on some banter 😂😂

Overdoing it a bit

"19.6 per cent of females had been a victim of a sexual offence since the age of 16, compared with 2.7 per cent of males (Table 2.6)"
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/214970/sexual-offending-overview-jan-2013.pdf
Page 18

Know 5 women? Chances are 1 of them has been raped or sexually assaulted in adulthood.

I was referring to murder being common.

On top of that, do those figures include rape in the army and prisons which are often unreported. On top of that, I doubt many men will come forward if raped due to the stigma around it.

Not everything is so black and white

Mind if I create the same thread but for boys?

FFS

Just read the post I was REPLYING to that stated that employers "foot the cost" of maternity and that women would work in a job for 3 months, go on maternity and never come back and that the employer would "foot the bill".

Mansplain maternity leave to the man who doesn't understand it not to the woman who corrected him

You really think paying an employee £11.28 a week for their maternity leave in order to retain a trained employee is a disincentive to employers (or for small employers actually get PAID £4,23 a week to retain them).