Please can you tell me if I would be entitled to maternity pay for my second job? I work for the same employer for my first (full time) and 2nd (part time) job.…
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My contract of employment states that I work Mon-Fri nine-three. I have worked these hours for the last five years, and have been able to take both my children-aged 10 & seven,to and from school daily. My dept which worked Mon-Fri nine-five was closed down, the files were transferred to another region, and with only eight days notice, all 21 staff were transferred to the call centre which worked seven days a week 8am-8pm. We were informed that after six months we would have to work shifts. I advised my employer that I could not do it, due to my child care commitments.They bought in a shift review and changed everyone's shift pattern, due to business needs, and now I am told I have to work nine-five one Saturday per month, one week in four 9.30-3.30, and one week in four 12-6pm. The other two weeks in the month I can remain working nine-three. Obviously I can not find child care to cover my children for 30 mins per day one week a month, and then for three hrs per day another week in the month. I raised a grievance and took it to an appeal but they state that due to the 'contractual change'ie bringing in the shift review, I have to change my working hours. I explained that I simply cannot get childcare cover and they advised me that it is not their problem. I have worked for this company 23 years.…
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I was absent from work for three months due to ill health Feb - May 2009. Upon my return to work my manager was impossible, she has several private conversations with me without a witness suggesting I didn't fit in, it would be better if I left. I was given an excessive workload above my level of experience and struggled so much, I spoke to my manger but was told to get out of her office. I refused to be beaten and really tried my best and was often threatened with the capability policy being evoked. Every other person in office grade was increased to a band three NHS admin after completion of foundation course and six weeks surgical experience, even though at the exam I gained the highest score I was the only member of staff not to be given the band three. The reason I was given, was I struggling with the workload. I was doing band four wards and extras but was kept to a band two grade. I lost all my confidence in my manager, myself and my ability to be a clinical coder and was a nervous wreck frantically looking for other jobs. Due to my sickness record my reference would be poor so I made a decision to ride out the storm, keep my head down and hope she forget I was there. I joked with a colleague, I would have a baby just to get away from that woman for 12 months and this information reached her office. I was summoned to her office and warned that if I did this I was out of that dept, she had rung HR and explained how difficult our job was and how temporary staff cannot do the job without training and she said HR had agreed we could be redeployed. I was at breaking point but assured her this wasn't my plan. Two weeks later I was given my band three and she seemed to relax with me. I did not trust my manager and was still a nervous wreck and by chance fell pregnant. I went into breakdown mode, I rang HR crying, she said it was a union matter, then I rang the union and they said we had to go and see my managers manager and the thought just made me so ill. I was petrified that everything would start again, the private meeting, the humiliations in team briefings, the threats with the capability policy. I was due to take a weeks holiday so said I would contact the union upon my return. I was so ill in work I began to fall behind so finally admitted to my supervisor I was pregnant, I cried in her office that I could not take another 12 months of my manager's treatment. She adjusted my workload but gave me a week to tell my manager because she was so scared for my health and the state of nerves I was in. She said you must tell her the day you return from holiday. I was called into my managers office before my holiday to do an appraisal and she said maybe I shouldn't be working there as she had heard a rumour but I didn't tell her I was pregnant. I started bleeding and went to the hospital where I was told the babies heart was slowing and it was 50/50 the baby would survive and I had to return in one week. I took my week's holiday but spent it terrified about telling my manager I was terrified what she would do. I miscarried the day I was due to return to work maybe due to the stress. I followed procedure ringing my office and submitting Dr's note but after three weeks my manager called me being horrible, suggesting a private meeting away from work, telling me how my colleagues are suffering for my absence, that I can never return due to my physical and emotional health. I said I didn't want to talk just to update her on my health. I emailed to say she stressed me out so much today and her reply was that I stressed her and she will no longer deal with me her manager will. I went to occupational health who disagreed with my manager she stated I wasn't fit to be a coder due to my emotional health. He stated I was fit to return to work and that there was nothing wrong with my mental health. He told me he was suggesting a referral to HR as what she had written was very unflattering and there are obviously other issues. My manager is off with ill heath so we haven't seen each other yet but I am dreading her return. My back to work was done with her manager who had been well informed about me and my file was huge. Initially I think she planned to invoke capability policy but listened when I described why my performance wasn't better. I explained also I'd had no further training workshops like every other staff member. She has devised a plan to settle me back in the work place and improve my performance so I am happy about that. My problem now is my treatment from before, her attitude towards me getting pregnant and how she will be when she returns. I need to do something to protect myself as I have no doubt she will somehow do something to discredit me. Thanking you in advance.
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I worked in the City and West End for 20 years as a secretary and for the last five years have been a full-time Mum. My daughter has special needs and will soon be going to a special school full-time. I need to find a job as, financially, we can't afford for me to stay at home any longer. I receive carer's allowance and tax credits; my daughter receives disability living allowance but unfortunately the combination of benefits and my husband's salary just doesn't cover all the bills. My problem is that one of my daughter's special needs is that she has episodes of severe vomiting which can last for days and quite often we have to get her into hospital so she can be put on a drip. I never know when she is going to be ill (sometimes she can remain well for months, other times only a few weeks) and each time I need to care for her full-time for a week. My daughter has had many tests done but still no cause or cure has been found for the vomiting. I tried typing from home part-time a year ago but my boss had to let me go as I just couldn't do enough hours because of my daughter being ill/hospital tests etc. I need to work but what employer is going to be understanding about me needing so much time off? Apart from when she is ill I have many hospital/consultant appointments I have to attend with my daughter which would mean taking more time off. Even if I work from home I will still have deadlines to meet. Could you give me any advice on what I could do/who I should approach? Also, when applying for a job I don't know whether I should mention my daughter's special needs and warn them I might need to take time off at short notice.…
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I have worked as an office co-ordinator since July 2008. I went on maternity leave in January 2010 and I am due to return to work at the end of October. Before I started my maternity leave I informed my employer that I would only be able to return part time due to child care arrangements to which he replied that we could sort that out at a later date. I called in to see my employer in July to discuss changing my hours. He said that he would have a "few things to juggle around" and then he casually threw into the conversation that there was an investigation he was dealing with regarding bullying and harrassment. At first he wasn't prepared to tell me any more but I said that was not fair as the allegation was against me. He still wouldn't really tell me anything so when I received my request for flexible working forms I enclosed a letter asking to discuss the issue further. My employer wrote back last week suggesting a meeting regarding flexible working and in a seperate letter he said that we could discuss the allegation informally on the same day, he also said that he had to look into matters as a 'number of colleagues had approached him and made comments'. Amazingly he suggested that I ask a colleague to sit in on the meeting regarding flexible working but I don't feel that I can trust anyone there now and I am dreading the thought of returning in October. Do I have a right to know who has said what about me or should I just try to ignore things as there has been no official complaint made verbally or in writing? I am wondering if my employer is trying to make it difficult to return in the hope that I will quit as he did say originally that my job was difficult to do on a part time basis.…
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