Have you just found out that you are pregnant and want to know what your rights are at work? 
Do you think that you are being discriminated against at work because of your pregnancy?
Wondering what benefits you are entitled to whilst you are pregnant and once the baby’s born? 

Maternity Action’s Advice Line provides expert advice and information to help you understand and take up your rights and entitlements throughout your pregnancy, maternity leave and return to work, including:  

* Maternity and paternity pay and leave
* Health and safety at work during pregnancy and whilst breastfeeding
* Rights during maternity leave
* Returning to work – requesting flexible hours and parental leave
* Benefits and tax credits for pregnant women and new families
* Entitlements to health care and benefits for women from abroad 

Call the Maternity Action Advice Line on 0845 600 8533 to talk to our advisers. (Calls cost up to 4p per minute with a max 10p set up charge from a BT landline.  Mobile and other network rates may be higher.) 

Please note our new opening hours for 2012:
The Advice Line is open Wednesdays 3pm - 7pm; Thursdays 3pm - 7pm; and Fridays 10am - 2pm.  

Your call is confidential.

We also have a range of FREE information sheets explaining employment rights and benefit entitlements and offer training workshops for professionals on maternity rights. If you have phoned our Advice Line and found it useful, please do let us know by emailing us.  Your story (no names needed) will help us show how important this service is.

Maternity Action relies on your support to provide pregnant women, new mothers and their families with advice and information to deal with problems at work and in the benefits system, and to get access to the healthcare that they need.
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