Given promotion at work, now pregnant and boss now talking about delaying promotion

SomeBozo

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I'll leave Conor to defend his own comments, I won't.

However, I run a employment consultancy business and the issue of "women of child baring age" is a huge concern for some employers. Not so much your large organisations, more small orgs with less than 10 employees.

I know of employers that have said, off the record, that they will not employ women of 18-50 years of age. Of course they don't advertise this (they can't legally) but they do follow it and waste my time, the candidates and the companies time, doing interviews for people who will never get the job.

They justify it saying that paying someone mat leave and then paying again to backfill that position will run them out of business. I take my cheque and move on.

Back to your position (I never mentioned your gender!) I stand by my advice in that you have been offered it in writing and I can't see how they can withdraw it now.

I suspect they will attempt to modify it. Ie not saying you won't get the promotion, but they will postpone it until you are back from mat leave. At least thats what I would advise the company to do.

The other thing to think about as well, lets say they follow through with it all, they offer it, you accept it, a few months into you go on mat leave and they back fill your promoted post. That person might make more of a success than you, make it his/her niche. Don't you want to make that for you as you got promoted to it? Things to think about.

What you do is up to you, and I am happy to help further, but I would balance whats best for you and baby, versus carrying on going up in the organisation you work for when you get back to work (not mutually exclusive I hope).

Bozo

Conor_3

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That's the way I'm wired?! I beg your pardon?! What an unbelievable draconian way of thinking!

Oh do take your politically correct head out of your politically correct backside for a moment won't you? It's HUMAN NATURE. No wonder you work in local government - it's probably the only place that puts up with the amount of PC rubbish people like you spout.

It's not a bloody draconian way of thinking at all. It's REALITY. It's FACT. It's borne out of MILLENNIA OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.

SomeBozo

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