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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • That’s not quite true. The general rule for most people is that you get a year of maternity leave; the first 6 weeks are at 90% of your usual pay, then you get 33 weeks at the lower of 90% or £172.48 per week, and then the rest is on Maternity Allowance which is a lower amount again.

    The two weeks rule applies only to people who otherwise aren’t entitled to maternity leave - normally this is people who are self-employed, agency workers or on a zero hours contract (although you should always check as there are exceptions to these rules that employers will try to pretend don’t exist). In that situation, everyone is entitled to two weeks maternity leave for safety reasons, or four weeks if you work in a factory.

    That said, a lot of people don’t get to benefit from these rules because employers will straight up lie to employees about what they’re entitled to, and rely on employees either not checking for themselves, or being too scared of losing their job to insist on getting what they’re entitled to. If you’re ever in this position, you should absolutely contact Citizens Advice - they know the rules inside out and will be happy to help remind your employer of their obligations, and also of what happens to employers who are found to retaliate or discriminate against employees who are pregnant or new mothers.





  • The backup service is good, inexpensive and easy to set up, so easy to recommend.

    I now use their B2 service with duplicati (available as a docker container, but idk how well it works with Synology). It’s dirt cheap and equally reliable, but requires more setup by the user, and you must follow good practise and do a test restore of some files to make sure it works.

    So it’s really a trade-off, depending on what you want to prioritise.