A request that maternity leave for employees to accept a period that does not follow full weeks from the start date
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Statutory Maternity Leave is 52 weeks in total and can start any day, no earlier than 11 weeks before birth, with a compulsory 2-week period after birth. Although some entitlements are calculated in weeks, there is no legal requirement for additional maternity leave to be taken in whole weeks. However, the message you’re seeing (“must be in full weeks”) is a system configuration rule, not a legal restriction, and is purely technical purposes (e.g., for pay-calculation).
