I'm going back to work next month after a year of maternity leave (I have two DC, DS 3.5 and DD 11 months) I asked if in could reduce my days to two from three (my job share partner was happy to increase to three). It was agreed.
On Friday my manager emailed to say that my job share partner was seconded to a full time management role and would take half of our team with her (our team has two separate functions so easy to split). This will leave me with half our team to manage.
Now I'm fine with that except;
My manager has asked me to come up with plans for how my team could be supported when I'm not there, I could offer to respond to urgent phone calls (as long as I'm not swimming with the kids etc) and check my emails once a day in the afternoon, but I'd want that to be paid time and in addition to my two days or I won't have time to do everything else I need to at work, any thoughts?
Secondly, I am fairly sure that the part of the team I'll be managing is on it's way out due to funding issues, central gov cutting funding (I work for a local authority), but the part my job share partner is taking with her will remain, statutory service. If the worse happens could they make me redundant or could I argue my job still exists and is being done by my job share partner so we'd have to compete?!
Thank you for any advice anyone has
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Chat with other users about all things related to working life on our Work forum.
Work
Confused about what to say.... (return to work gubbins)
3 replies
Firestone · 21/08/2011 08:40
OP posts:
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.