DEAD Continuous Employment and Maternity Leave

Both OML and AML count towards an employees period of continuous employment for the purposes of entitlement to other statutory employment rights, e.g. the right to a redundancy payment.

Only OML counts for assessing seniority and personal length-of-service payments, such as pay increments, under her contract of employment. (For employees whose EWC begins on or after the 5th October 2008, both OML and AML will count).

Therefore, when assessing length of service for a pay rise for example, you can ignore any period of AML for any women whose EWC begins before 5th October 2008.