maternity cover

[scully]

Does anyone know the ins and outs of maternity cover for permanent full time roles? Is it possible for a company to put another permanent staff member into a maternity cover role, if their original job no longer exists?

[starlover]

i don't see why not. but they would have to leave once the person taking maternity leave came back

[Lizzylou]

My company took someone on a temp contract to cover my work whilst i was away, when I said I wanted to work only P/T and not go back into my old role (couldn't be done p/t anyway) they made him perm....

[Tabs]

They can put someone else into a maternity cover role even if their job does still exist (I did mat cover like this a few years ago)! But as Starlover says, they would have to move once the post-holder came back from mat leave.

[scully]

thx for the replies. have a few interesting things going on here at the moment, but of course everything is up in the air right now....