If your job relocates while you are on mat. leave, are you made redundant?

[screamsprout]

My boss has called me this morning to tell me he will be leaving when I am on mat. leave next year. He is the CEO and of course, while we don't know who will get the job, a prime contender is a senior manager who is based elsewhere in the country. He wouldn't relocate here so the CEO function (and support staff, of which I am one) would relocate too.

Would I be stuffed then? Or would the requirement for me to return at the same grade win out? I'm guessing not, but it's worth a shot!!!

[flowerybeanbag]

Screamsprout you can be made redundant while you are on maternity leave, but if there is a suitable alternative job available they must offer it to you.

Even if there was nothing at all available and they had to make you redundant, redundancy doesn't affect your right to Statutory Maternity Pay assuming you qualify for it.

So you are fine, as long as there is something available.

hth

[screamsprout]

Ok, thanks. Am still concerned as I have gone back part-time and decent part-time jobs are not that easy to come by but I can't worry about that now!