I've name changed for this, but I'm a regular.
I'm currently 22 weeks pregnant. I applied for my dream job in higher education in June before I was even pregnant. This is a change in career for me and the roles very, very rarely come up, so I was thrilled to be selected. I interviewed in September and due to various internal delays and budget reasons, was finally offered it today. I am so excited.
I understood that they cannot now withdraw the offer upon finding out I am pregnant and I am protected. Is this right? The other issue is that I applied for a permanent role, but was told today that the role was now a 1 year fixed term contract, not a permanent role, because of fluidity in student numbers, but in all likelihood I would be retained and become permanent after that.
Doing the maths, they want me to start the 1 year contract on 7th January when I would be 31 weeks pregnant, so they are only going to get about 6 weeks work out of me before I go on Mat leave (DS was early) and I don't think I could return until baby is 6 months old. Whereupon I would have 3 months left before the end of my contract. I'm fatalistic enough to think that they then wouldn't renew the contract because I was hardly in work enough to impress enough.
Does anyone have advice or experience? Should I take it?
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LindaMcCartneySausage · 02/11/2012 16:30
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