NHS employer - hassle after maternity

Poppie68

The NHS are not making rules up as they go along, the rules regarding requests for reduced working hours and the required 8 weeks notice have been in place longer than your wife has been off work on maternity leave so all informtion has been available before you both made the decision to have the baby. If your wife feels that she can no longer cope with working fulltime and a baby maybe she would consider bank work?

dktreesea

[quote=[Deleted User];64864558]Ummm and you need to read the post before replying.

Thats my point exactly. She did give 8 weeks notice of changing her return date i.e. At the beginning of Feb, she notified her employer that she would be returning to work in April.

My point is that, because her manager has dragged her feet, and still not processed the request, it will now not be possible for her to go back in April because payroll insist on 8 weeks notice.

Point being is if law says 8 weeks then if there internal issues or delays that employer has then the law takes precedence. (In another words, tough titty employer sort it out).[/QUOTE]

Every cloud has a silver lining. If your wife has to delay going back to work, that will allow her to give more of her precious time to the baby, before giving him/her up for a third party to take care of while she works.

You could always work opposite hours. If your wife's hours will be inflexible, why not change yours to work nights/days/at the weekend or whatever would be needed so you can both take care of your children and limit the amount of outside childcare you will needd. Plenty of us have spent years doing that whilst bringing up our children, just so we didn't have to hand them over to third parties to raise.

[Deleted User]

Poppie68 wrote: »

The NHS are not making rules up as they go along, the rules regarding requests for reduced working hours and the required 8 weeks notice have been in place longer than your wife has been off work on maternity leave so all informtion has been available before you both made the decision to have the baby. If your wife feels that she can no longer cope with working fulltime and a baby maybe she would consider bank work?

ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

READ THE POST!!!!!

Thats EXACTLY my point. You have to give 8 weeks notice that is THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!! And I am well aware of that.

Unfortunately, manager seems to think that just because its inconvenient and they haven't pulled their finger out then it doesn't apply to them.

[Deleted User]

dktreesea wrote: »

Every cloud has a silver lining. If your wife has to delay going back to work, that will allow her to give more of her precious time to the baby, before giving him/her up for a third party to take care of while she works.

You could always work opposite hours. If your wife's hours will be inflexible, why not change yours to work nights/days/at the weekend or whatever would be needed so you can both take care of your children and limit the amount of outside childcare you will needd. Plenty of us have spent years doing that whilst bringing up our children, just so we didn't have to hand them over to third parties to raise.

Well not really. She was going back in June anyway. Its just she was going to officially end maternity and use leave until June.

Unfortunately, maternity pay goes to zero shortly which is why we wanted to use leave.

Takeaway_Addict

[quote=[Deleted User];64864702]ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

READ THE POST!!!!!

Thats EXACTLY my point. You have to give 8 weeks notice that is THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!! And I am well aware of that.

Unfortunately, manager seems to think that just because its inconvenient and they haven't pulled their finger out then it doesn't apply to them.[/QUOTE]
If you have proven the notice then maybe this meeting is to get things clarified and they are going to accept the notice to come back to work, but remember they can refuse to allow holidays to be taken and insist she returns to work.

[Deleted User]

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

If you have proven the notice then maybe this meeting is to get things clarified and they are going to accept the notice to come back to work, but remember they can refuse to allow holidays to be taken and insist she returns to work.

Maternity policy for employer suggests that doing this with leave is the preferred option.

My point is they've left it so late she now won't get paid for April.

getmore4less

If she has given the relevent notice to return then that can/should happen, not sure an employer can say no to this proposal if it was done in time.

The issue with using the accrued holiday is seperate.

Why has their been a need to change dates you are supposed to give a return date at the start, has something changed in the plans?

Takeaway_Addict

[quote=[Deleted User];64864818]Maternity policy for employer suggests that doing this with leave is the preferred option.

My point is they've left it so late she now won't get paid for April.[/QUOTE]
You've not made it clear though whether they have specifically said this though, I know you have said they won't but has anyone actually said that because of the managers !!!! up its now not possible?

Either way a grievance against the manager might be worth looking at

Poppie68

[quote=[Deleted User];64864702]ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

READ THE POST!!!!!

Thats EXACTLY my point. You have to give 8 weeks notice that is THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!! And I am well aware of that.

Unfortunately, manager seems to think that just because its inconvenient and they haven't pulled their finger out then it doesn't apply to them.[/QUOTE]



Blimey CALM down.....If you don't like the answers, don't post. Nobody can help you as you never like the answers. I myself have offered 2 options and you never acknowledge any possible solutions, your just intent on moaning about something you can't change.
Has your wife spoken to HR regarding the 8 weeks notice? You say she spoke to her manager..when i worked for the NHS it had to be given in writing direct to the HR department, and then employees had to attend a back to work meeting half way through the 8 week period to discuss any back to work issues.

[Deleted User]

getmore4less wrote: »

If she has given the relevent notice to return then that can/should happen, not sure an employer can say no to this proposal if it was done in time.

The issue with using the accrued holiday is seperate.

Why has their been a need to change dates you are supposed to give a return date at the start, has something changed in the plans?

Return date defaults to 12 months unless indicated otherwise. Of course, no need to decide at the beginning because you can give 8 weeks notice like this.