If you are absent during any period of Maternity Leave or Adoption Leave for which you are paid by your Employer, membership of the Scheme continues on the following basis: 

• Your contributions will change at the time you go on Maternity/Adoption Leave, so that your contributions will be calculated according to the Maternity/Adoption pay you are actually receiving. 
• If you take Additional Maternity/Adoption Leave which is unpaid, you and your Employer will cease making contributions into your DC Account. Contributions will not recommence until you recommence work with your Employer.