Trying for a Baby Part 7

jen77_2

Morning peeps... How is everyone on this chilly Monday?
Another few days for me til 2ww is over.. Have had no symptoms to spot and my temps are rubbish... Bit flatlining.. Temps often same two days in row etc... Doesn't help working shifts as its confusing ff with my temp times :-(

QQ can u put me down for testing on Thurs if I can resist the urge in the meantime lol!
I'll be 13dpo then ..or 14 according to ff

emsbet

I'm wondering if one of you lovely ladies knows the answer to my question as I can't find any detailed information online. If not I will post on the employment/redunancy boards.

As most of you know I am being made redunant at the end of March. As our whole organisation is going references are going to be done by the government office that we belong to. Basically what our HR deparment are doing is supplying them with details such as job title, employment dates etc.

One of the sections is for number of sick days taken in the past 12 months. Now I know that pregnancy related sickness has to be recorded seperately to that of "normal" sickness. I was originally told that the time off i had for my last mc has been recorded as pg related and therefore won't be shown on the reference.
We have now been sent a copy of the template letter that will be used for reference and the section for sickness absences says that they should state if it was for pg related sickness!
Are they allowed to include that? I thought they weren't and I'm now worried that is going to heavily count against me when looking for a new job (I know employers aren't allowed to discriminate for such things but we all know it goes on and they will find an alternative reason not to give you the job!). I will have two incidences of pg related sickness and obviously I have no children so it doesn't take a genius to realise that they were mcs and the changes are high that we'd still be TTC!
Anybody know whether they are allowed to include it or not?

xx

twigglet35

bigzippy wrote: »

Didn't twigglet and primmer say cd1 today/yesterday/day before?

Im still wating for AF bigzippy.

xx

tinkwings

Morning Lady Bugs

Hugs to all those with CD1 & in need. :A

Had a productive weekend we moved DD2 into her own room she has been in with us for the last year!!! :eek: But she is very happy in her fab new room

Emsbet leave for PG related stuff shouldn't be held against you they could get into a lot of trouble if they do ;)

I am a total book worm read about 3 at the same time and don't like the idea of an e book at all Guess that makes me old!!!

So nealy 1 week done of the 2ww feels odd this time a total sense of calm about me. Really wierd.

I really must get some get up & go and get my Christmas shopping done not done a thing :eek:

Take care ladies xxxx :A

emsbet

tinkwings wrote: »

Had a productive weekend we moved DD2 into her own room she has been in with us for the last year!!! :eek: But she is very happy in her fab new room

Glad she's enjoying it! It looks fab BTW!

tinkwings wrote: »

Emsbet leave for PG related stuff shouldn't be held against you they could get into a lot of trouble if they do ;)

I know it shouldn't which is why I think it's daft that it should be recorded on the reference, especially after they told me it wouldn't

xx

tinkwings

emsbet wrote: »

Glad she's enjoying it! It looks fab BTW!

Thank You

I know it shouldn't which is why I think it's daft that it should be recorded on the reference, especially after they told me it wouldn't

xx

Is there anyone you can ask? Do you have an HR person??? Seems very off to me.

emsbet

tinkwings wrote: »

Is there anyone you can ask? Do you have an HR person??? Seems very off to me.

Yeah there are two. I am going to email them later, I was just wondering if anyone new whether they were allowed to include it or not before I did.

xx

Secretdebts

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Nicki

I think they are allowed to include it, provided that they differentiate between pregnancy related and normal sickleave.

What I don't know is whether they are allowed not to put it on the reference at all. I suspect they either have to put ALL time off for sick leave on, and differentiate for pregnancy related and normal, or put nothing at all on about sick leave, but might then be asked the question anyway. Otherwise, they are giving a misleading reference. Say, for example a woman has on her CV that she did a 6 month project involving new skills but in fact she was off with a pregnancy related illness for 4 of those 6 months. If the reference said she had no days sick leave, that would give a very distorted impression of her input on the project and the experience she has using these new skills, so the employer surely should either say 4 months off pregnancy related, or just not mention sick leave at all?

TTC40

Ems - I would say it should be recorded as it is a fact that you have been off & references must be factual.

You are quite right in that it shouldn't be considered by the next employer - but they may well find another reason to select someone above you (but I hope this wouldn't happen).