Denied Flexible Working

scmp

I know
They were a lovely company to work for and i had happy years their and wouldnt have appealed as they do have a business to run (it is local family owned).
I will admit i was a sad that they just brushed me aside after not covering my fulltime hours for a year whilst on materity. It gave me false hope for reduced hours lol.


Anyhow i am at the job centre tomorrow and will show them everything and be happier knoing my NI is fine. Then to call the tax office for my change of circumstances and back to the part time job hunt!

So is there anything else i need to do?
I am hoping the job centre will be helpful in they will.let me know that i have informed everybody who i am supposed to inform.

Spendless

I sympathise. I was in very much a similar position when my eldest was born and that's almost 16 years ago! My employer didn't have any part-time workers (and the right to request didn't exist) and that's pretty much the same nowadays, part-time office jobs in the private sector in my area are extremely rare, practically non-existent.

I was able to find part-time evening/weekend work but even that went out of the window when I had youngest and DH took a job where he spends part of every week working away.

If your area is like mine, then I suggest you look within the public sector where there seems to be more flexibility.

Good luck in the job hunting!

scmp

Thank you

I am limited to what job because of the times nursery opens and closes so bar work is out which is a pain as i did that when i was younger!
I am hoping part time admin work will work out as i am very experienced in that area.

The other option is 25hrs a week term time work in the local school but i have no idea how that would work with tax credits?

Darksparkle

Term time workers are considered to be working their normal hours all year round for tax credit purposes.

scmp

Thank you for that as i really didnt know!
It would mean not having to pay child care during the holidays and it would be easier to budget to live on one wage for those weeks knowing it is coming rather than have a different wage each week. Will speak to the nursery about term time only prices as an idea.

Thank you

bspm

scmp wrote: »

Thank you for that as i really didnt know!
It would mean not having to pay child care during the holidays and it would be easier to budget to live on one wage for those weeks knowing it is coming rather than have a different wage each week. Will speak to the nursery about term time only prices as an idea.

Thank you

As far as I am aware you pay for childcare all year, there are no term time charges?

My daughter in law has just placed my granddaughter in to a nursery two days a week, Monday and Wednesday, on Bank Holidays (when the nursery is closed) they still have to pay for that day, also during the school holidays (my daughter in law is a teacher).

You pay a set amount per week depending on how many days you place your child.

Darksparkle

bspm wrote: »

As far as I am aware you pay for childcare all year, there are no term time charges?

My daughter in law has just placed my granddaughter in to a nursery two days a week, Monday and Wednesday, on Bank Holidays (when the nursery is closed) they still have to pay for that day, also during the school holidays (my daughter in law is a teacher).

You pay a set amount per week depending on how many days you place your child.

It would depend entirely on the provider.

Some may have term time prices, some might just be all year.

Mr_Costcutter

Hello scmp,

My niece found herself in a very similar position to yourself and unable to return to her place of work after baby arrived. She tried very hard to find a new job which would give her the flexibilty which she required - but unable to do so. Eventually, she decided to start her own little business. She had previously worked as a secretary and so now offers 'secretarial services' from her home. To begin with business was very slow. Today it is a different story. She now has a wide range of clients, from hospital consultants (private patients) to a garage owner needing help. Hope this helps and good luck to you and your family

duchy

Altho.ugh not a total solution to paying for childcare in school holidays -I used a really good childminder who was an ex fully qualified nursery nurse who wanted to be at home with her own school age children.

It was the best of both worlds as my son got the benefit of her experience- lots of social time with other children at toddler groups, educational time with her at home and her kids when they were home from school were great with him. As she wanted time with her kids in school holidays she would have two weeks off in the summer holidays off, two weeks at Easter and a week at Christmas off - which I didn't pay for. If I wanted holiday at other times I still paid - which I felt was a better compromise than paying a nursery 52 weeks of the year regardless.

I used to work part-time when my son was a baby 3 days a week Thursday, Friday and Saturday (in a travel agency) -My husband worked Mon-Fri so used to look after our son on Saturdays -saved on childcare and was good for bonding as he worked such long hours he might as well have been working away like your husband. He found the first couple of days he did it very hard work (but as a plus never again asked me what on earth I did with myself all day ) but after that enjoyed it.

I waited til he was two and a half for nursery and I think the more homely atmosphere when he was younger was more appropriate for his personality.

Childminders will often be a bit more flexible than a nursery too so worth considering as an option especially for part-time work. It can be quite time consuming finding the right one-I interviewed loads before I found one I was comfortable with .

Just some ideas that might help
I also know of a couple of companies who do call centre work from home (inbound NOT cold calling) which although as you are on the phone so can't have baby noise in the background so will still need childcare might fit better than commuting to work. That kind of role might suit you.

scmp

A child minder may be the way to go so i will look into that. Either a childminder or nursery and i will be happy as i do think it is important for my boy to gain the social skills he would get there and 20/25 hours would be great. Much better than 50 hours in care!

I have actualy looked in to becoming self employed and it is definately something i have been concidering. A business i could grow while working part time before taking the plunge may be a sensible way to go.

I called the tax office to udate them on my non return to work and they re did the calculation and we are no longer entitled to CTC.
She asked me what our predicted income for 2015-16 would be and it is combined just under £23800.
Husband at £21400 and myself at £2385 which is my SMP and my owed holidays.
So my personal income will just be my sons child benefit until i get myself this job!

It is all so new on confusing!