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Civil Service Practices
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Appendix 7
Period of Maternity leave
Conditions for leave entitlement
Pay entitlement
Extended leave
10 weeks
Hong Kong
(at least 4 weeks but not more than 6 weeks after delivery)
All female officers on regular payroll are entitled to maternity leave. They must first take any casual or vacation leave due to them.
(a) Tecale officers with at least
12 months service:
1⁄2 pay for balance of leave
(b) Female officers with less
than 12 months service:
no pay
Up to 6 months (no pay). Any further extension requires approval of the Secretary for the Civil Service.
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18 weeks
United Kingdom
(at least 11 weeks before the
expected week of confinement)
All female officers on regular payroll are entitled to maternity leave. That period of paid maternity leave exceed- ing 6 weeks will reckon against normal sick leave entitlement.
(a) Female officers with at
least 12 months continuous service prior to the 11th week before the expected week of confinement: 3 months full pay
(minus National Insurance
maternity allowance, dependants' allowances and sickness benefit)
(b) Female officers with less
than one year continuous service prior to the 11th week before the expected week of confinement but with more than two years total service:
6 weeks full pay (minus National Insurance
maternity allowance, dependants' allowances and sickness benefit)
(c) Female officers with less
than one year continuous service prior to the 11th week before the expected week of confinement but with less than two years total service:
no pay.
Leave without pay may be
granted at the discretion of
the employing authority or
granted as sick leave.
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