Hello, I'm new. Hoping to get some advice about my sad situation
My boss is a psychopathic tyrant. Always has been.
I'm now in my early 2nd trimester, and have a fairly heavy work load that I manage all aspects of on my own, with boss' input on rare occasions, b/c he can't be bothered to do more. I was just about dealing with it and had every intention of seeing these multiple projects through before I took maternity leave...
I am quite competent and have taken a lot of responsibility dealing with unreasonable client demands but my boss is a coward and rather than back me up and support me, he had one of his wonderful tantrums. He belittled my capabilities and performance in front of the entire office. I.was.LIVID!!!! I finished up what I was doing and left the office early.
What I'd like to know are my rights:
- I intend to get signed off of work by my GP tomorrow
- Should I be signed off due to work stress or pregnancy related reasons??
(I have had 2 high blood pressure readings recently)
- if I get signed off for more than a week, these projects I've been working on will suffer and my relationship to the office will be very, very hostile on my return.
- I do not plan to go back to this hell at the end of maternity leave.
- I've work there for over a decade and they owe me £8,000 in unpaid wages due to recession period.
- they are a small firm with no HR department
- they are nasty and unprofessional people who cannot be reasoned with.
- I barely get enough sleep, I'm extremely upset and feel very unmotivated to go back to work.
- I do not want to lose money on account of this bully. Originally the plan was to start maternity leave in mid- July.
- as I understand, legally they cannot force me to start maternity leave before my 36th week of pregnancy which would be early August.
What are my options?
Thanks for reading.