I am currently in my 7th month of maternity leave. Prior to this I was working full time. I submitted my flexible working request in writing in January - requesting to work 2 days a week. My manager asked to meet with me a week later - he did not inform me of my right to be accompanied at the meeting. At the meeting he basically just read my letter and said he'd be in touch. He wrote back exactly one calendar month later to say that he would like to meet me again to discuss my request further and the possibility of a job share. I telephoned him to arrange a date/time and he mentioned that I might like to bring along a friend.
At the second meeting I was accompanied by a colleague. It was pretty obvious that my request was going to be rejected and today I received a letter confirming this (this letter was written within a week of the meeting so no issues there). My manager has used 4 of the 8 reasons he could have to decline my request, primarily citing increased costs if a job share was in place. He has quoted £5k - this is equivalent to 1 extra day a week (as in me working 2 days and the job share working 4 days over a 5 day week - therefore both of us working 1 full day together). The letter says I now have 14 days to appeal.
A colleague returned from maternity leave in 2012 and was allowed to job share with only a half day handover. A member of my own team returned from maternity leave in late 2011 and a role was created specifically for her to accommodate her flexible working request. My parents in law have now kindly offered to care for our two children an extra day a week so I can in fact return to work 3 days week. I would like to appeal - have the examples given above set a precedent? Should I try to renegotiate and offer to work 3 days and suggest that a half day handover is adequate? Any advice will be much appreciated!…
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I am due to return to work later this month after taking the full 52 weeks maternity leave. Until last week I was given the impression my request (verbal) to work part time would be granted. I have a lot of annual leave to use so was going to use it to extend my time off work. Last week, however, I as told by my line manager my job was going to be a 50/50 job share and because they didn't have anyone else in place to job share yet I was responsible for the full-time job. Apart from shock, I feel let down. My boss has always encouraged me to take as much time off as I could afford and to only come back to work a day or two because as she puts it 'you never get that time back with your children'. I have since read the job share policy which states discussions should have taken place before I started my maternity leave. This one is tricky because due to family circumstances just before I was due to go off I left quite suddenly, although I did go back to tie up loose ends. My question really is can a job share be forced on me? A part-time position, which I thought I was going to have, suits me and my family better and would have given me more time off with my family.…
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I am on maternity leave and due to return in October. I recently sent an email to the directors asking for a job share, but before I did so I asked my manager that if a job share was not available could I ask to reduce my hours in another way and she said yes. Since then I have read you can only make one application a year, so can I not ask again now as my job share request has been turned down?…
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I job share 24 hours a week over 3 days. I put in a request to have my working day reduced from 8 hours a day to 7.12 hrs a day - a total reduction of 48 minutes a day (which is the standard length of working day for full time
staff) and it has been refused. Within a week of my request being refused, I was taken into a room by my manager and another manager and told that a new job role has been created and they think I am the best person for the job. I told them that I didn't want to move, I hadn't requested a development move and I wished to stay where I was. They said I didn't have a choice and if I didn't move then there was no job for me. I have since been informed that they are making my position a full-time position and that's the reason why I am being forced to move. I feel I have no rights and that I am being bullied into this department move. They have already informed the other person that they are taking over my role. Have I got any rights to be able to stay where I am? I just feel like I am being bulldozered.
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I am currently working on a job share basis where we work 50/50. My partner has just informed the company that she is pregnant. Today they told me that I need to have a meeting with my partner to discuss what is going to happen. I told them I didn't know what was meant to happen and they said that they wouldn't be able to find anyone at the same level as me to cover her. I asked if this meant I would have to take the job full time or be out of a job!. Can they make me go full time while my partner is on maternity leave? Can they also make me go full time if she decides not to return? …
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