Has Chloe Everton left QVC?

[hamster007]

I've not seen Chloe for a while, has she left QVC?

 

[Sazza]

Chloe is on maternity leave, her wife had their second baby a few months ago.

 

[Brissles]

How does that work then ? My dad along with thousands of others certainly didn't (or wasn't entitled) to weeks off. Mum gave birth and he had the day off then it was back to work.

So, is Chloe taking the woman's prerogative of taking months off too, like her wife ?

 

[Battiola73]

I don’t know how this all works with 1001 different genders, but I thought UK paternity leave was 2 weeks and maternity leave was 52 weeks. Does that mean if it’s two Dads they each get two weeks and if two Mums they each get a year? I get sooo flipping confused with all the gender malarkey.

 

[Nicky-j]

I don’t know how this all works with 1001 different genders, but I thought UK paternity leave was 2 weeks and maternity leave was 52 weeks. Does that mean if it’s two Dads they each get two weeks and if two Mums they each get a year? I get sooo flipping confused with all the gender malarkey.

The law for 52 weeks applies to the person who has had the baby. The 2 weeks to their partner. I don't believe gender is even mentioned. That's a statutory minimum, but employment contracts/agreements may offer more. I think QVC presenters are self-employed, and often have flexible terms etc.

 

[Bea Frugal]

Maybe she’s taken unpaid leave, she’s not there is the main thing

 

[Grizelda]

Must be unpaid leave. She can't be on maternity leave.

How does that work then ? My dad along with thousands of others certainly didn't (or wasn't entitled) to weeks off. Mum gave birth and he had the day off then it was back to work.

So, is Chloe taking the woman's prerogative of taking months off too, like her wife ?

She can take time off, but she won't be paid.

 

[Brissles]

I don’t know how this all works with 1001 different genders, but I thought UK paternity leave was 2 weeks and maternity leave was 52 weeks. Does that mean if it’s two Dads they each get two weeks and if two Mums they each get a year? I get sooo flipping confused with all the gender malarkey.

That's why I asked Batti ! We live in a world where you think of a number, double it, take away the number and divide by 9 then hopefully you come up with the right gender and pronoun! All bloody absurd.

 

[alter ego]

Maybe she’s taken unpaid leave, she’s not there is the main thing

Haha. I thought that, too.

 

[misiuszka]

How does that work then ? My dad along with thousands of others certainly didn't (or wasn't entitled) to weeks off. Mum gave birth and he had the day off then it was back to work.

So, is Chloe taking the woman's prerogative of taking months off too, like her wife ?

The law has thankfully changed in the last 70 years so that partners get the opportunity (2 weeks paid I think) to bond with the baby and help the mother.

 

[Battiola73]

That's why I asked Batti ! We live in a world where you think of a number, double it, take away the number and divide by 9 then hopefully you come up with the right gender and pronoun! All ****** absurd.

I hope I didn’t offend anyone but I really wanted to know how it all worked with all these different proclivities. Perhaps we should ask Alison Young?

 

[Loveinamist]

My daughter wanted a full year off with her second child so saved annual leave to add on and then added on unpaid leave to get the full year. She’s a midwife, deserved it and needed it.

 

[ClaireKelly]

I think you can share maternity/paternity leave. So if mum wants to go back to work earlier, the partner can use her maternity leave. My daughter is NHS and she could share it with her partner. Don’t ask me how that works….daughter didn’t want to give up her leave anyway lol

 

[Dame Fondacox]

Some employers offer enhanced maternity leave packages. Where I work they've recently started offering six months full-pay, four months half-pay and then it reduces again for the final two months. You also accrue holiday entitlement (including the bank holidays) while on mat leave, which most people use to extend their leave, or retain full-pay in the second half of it. Parents can share the leave entitlement. It's rare that they do but sometimes there's a good reason - offer of promotion etc.

 

[donna255]

Going back some years over here it was well known for new mums when their leave was ending going to the doctor and getting sick notes. Making sure not to sleep well the night before the GP appointment, crying when there, that the baby won't sleep etc. It was all put on, and they would admit it to friends to get an extra few months off.

 

[Battiola73]

A few years ago, I remember that a few women I worked with came back after maternity leave and then handed their notice in after a couple of weeks being back at work. Have a vague recollection that if they informed their employers in writing that they were coming back to work and then didn’t, they’d have to pay back some of their maternity pay. Not sure if this was the law or just our company’s ruling.

I had a maternity cover job that terminated the day the mother came back to work. She handed her notice in two weeks later. Company offered me the position full time and I stayed there for 15 years until they relocated to Poland.

 

[miss molly]

When I had my 2nd I was back at work after 12 weeks. At the time we needed the money so back I went

 

[May]

She will prob run back to work in reality it’s not all light and flowers especially with two .. no matter what the adverts show lol … wonderful yes but hard work .. however id do it all again in a heartbeat .
Have the joy of grandsons now and loving every minute

 

[Koala]

I left work at 35 weeks, had my daughter at 36 and then returned when she was five months old.

Went from 40 hours a week to 20.

I must have been absolutely mad to work that long, I used to be a staff nurse on a very hectic renal ward.

I went back when I no longer got paid for being off so around 6 months.
That was in spring 99.

I don’t remember my husband getting paid time off then either.

 

[Battiola73]

My friend went on maternity leave. Her and her husband decided that it wasn’t economically viable for her to continue workingafter their son was born. By the time they’d paid for childcare and she’d reduced her working hours from 35 to 30 hours , she’d be taking home the equivalent of £60 a week! Take out the cost of her hour each way daily commute, reduce that down to £25. She only went back to work part time when he started school.