NHS employer - hassle after maternity

pelirocco

[quote=[Deleted User];64838917]Like? Not really. Babies need someone to look after them.[/QUOTE]


Their parents maybe? , thats a novel idea !!!

[Deleted User]

notanewuser wrote: »

That's standard for part timers.

How many hours does she want to do on return?

Wants to do 10.

notanewuser

[quote=[Deleted User];64866544]Wants to do 10.[/QUOTE]

2 x 5 or 1 x 10?

(Either way, I can see why they aren't keen.)

esmy

As your wife has a meeting to discuss the issues next week could I suggest some options to consider , all of which I have known be accepted by a public service employer

- is there a colleague who would like extra hours ie pick up the 7.5 your wife wants to drop? ( This worked for me when I wanted to reduce hours)
- job share has already been suggested but may be difficult on 17.5 hours - I imagine there won't be many wanting to work 8.75 hours
- Could your wife use her accrued leave to reduce her working hours ie take 7.5 hours leave per week till it's used up? (I also did this on returning after maternity leave )If she has her full leave for 13-14 this would get her over the three month 'payback' period and give you more time to consider next steps.
- would the employer be willing to pay her for the leave accrued in this year? At least this will help towards child care costs if this is an issue.

Whatever, I think your wife needs to go to the meeting armed with suggestions/ideas as in my experience this generally goes down much better and has more chance of achieving a compromise.
HTH

specialboy

4 pages of trying to help his poor wife find a way of cutting her hours so she can spend time at home with the new kids and it transpires that she is only doing 17.5 a week anyway, some people spend longer than that commuting.

Tenyearstogo

[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]

Why didn't she copy in HR as well as her manager?

[Deleted User]

specialboy wrote: »

4 pages of trying to help his poor wife find a way of cutting her hours so she can spend time at home with the new kids and it transpires that she is only doing 17.5 a week anyway, some people spend longer than that commuting.

and your point is?

[Deleted User]

Current situation is manager currently:-

1. Won't give reason for hours refusal.
2. Won't commit to leave plan.

Insists its all got to be discussed at a meeting in a few weeks times.

Anyone know - for the hours request how long has employer got to respond?

notanewuser

2 second google:

https://www.gov.uk/flexible-working/making-a-statutory-application

[Deleted User]

UPDATE

Only letting her tag 7 weeks onto the end (which is what was accrued) not 9 as planned. Took them a month to decide this.

Appreciate they're allowed to do this but, if she'd known earlier she would have just put start date back two weeks. Trouble is we're on holidays now those weeks.

Its less than 28 days (allowed by law) to start date now. I hope they're not going to be awkward and refuse to allow change now since the delay was their fault.

Best one. Wife pointed out that OK fair enough but she'd be going back and having a years worth of leave to use in 9 months so when could she have. So far manager has said, first free week is November so can let you have that. Great so only 7 more weeks to use by next April then in Dec-Mar 2015.

As I said before, this is their trick they do all the time. Refuse leave requests and then employee loses unused leave. Happened a few times with others.