I am currently on maternity leave and will be going back to work in the summer. I do part time 7-1pm. I have had to find childcare for two days a week and managed to get a nursery that opens at 7am. However, this means I will be late for work by 15 minutes, but according to my boss I will be done for lateness and could be sacked for it. She also mentioned that because of this I could not go back to my old job. She then stated that there were no other jobs available in the department and that she would contact another manager. They have now come back to me offering 9am to 1pm which would mean I would take a 2-hour pay loss. Do I have the right to refuse the hours offered? And if so must my employer offer something else or as I have refused their offer can they simply say I have to leave? I was told that if you are paid contractual maternity pay from your employer you have to go back to work for three months. However if I have to leave due to their inflexibility do I have to pay it back?
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I am due to return to work soon and I have requested reducing my contract to 24 hours as an assistant manager, but this has be declined for several reasons which are valid according to the legislation and I would like to appeal. I am struggling with what to put down as my reasons for my appeal and they have also not offered me any other options which leaves me in a very difficult situation as my children are in nursery three days a week and I have no other options for childcare. I'm so worried that I may have to hand my notice in. What can I do?…
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I am currently on maternity leave and due to start back in November. My intention is to put in a request for flexible (and part-time) working. In my contract it states that my work must include some weekends. I have usually worked about 3 in 4 Saturdays and 1 to 2 in 4 Sundays before I became pregnant. Being a single mum I have been searching for childcare and have been unable to find any childminders/nurseries in my area that will mind my child on weekends. I have looked at 20 plus childminders/nurseries, calling all the childminders and asking them direct. There are no other childcare solutions for me (eg family/friends). In the circumstances can my employer refuse a request from me NOT to work any weekend shifts? It is not as though I can 'compromise' by even doing fewer weekends, as there is no childcare provision at all for weekends in my area. Would I be able to force them in effect to not make me work weekends if I can prove there is no alternative solution for me? Many thanks.…
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I am unhappy about childcare in my nursery. My two year old appears scared of staff. They are unfriendly to me, never say hello and ignore my son when he comes in. I also find him abandoned in a corner on his own when I pick him up. He had a couple of accidents-bruised nose, scratches and bumbs. He comes home dehydrated and very thirsty - his daily sheet shows he has dry nappies all day long.Once they called me asking me where he was despite him being there! The last incident was when he left the nursery unnoticed and another parent found him outside and brought him back!
The staff informed me about this incident when I came to pick him but played it down. I feel someone hurts him there as he seems terrified of some of the staff, clinging to me and holding tight, which is unusual as he is very sociable and likes company otherwise. Also he is terrified when I
want to change his nappies, screaming and holding his hands in front. He gets happy as soon as he is dressed again. I don't want to cause problems or accuse anyone, but I feel something wrong is going on in the nursery. What can I do?
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I have been out of work for three years and before that I worked in a food shop. I really want to get back to work into something new, but don't know how I'm going to work and learn something new without getting a wage that will pay childcare and bills. My partner works full time and I'm a stay-at-home mum. What advice do you have for me and what would I have to pay if I had to go to college? I have two boys aged three and nearly one. I feel I would (just about) cope putting them into full-time nursery to benefit our family as a whole.…
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