Hello all, I am Janine 36 and live in gorgeous Yorkshire. I am already a mum to four wonderful boys (12,10,9,6) from a previous marriage and got married again in March 09. New hub and I are expecting our first baby next march
However I have a serious issue with my workplace!!
I work for a small company, just the owner, me, and another lady who works one day a week!
I work 16 hours a week over 3 days and used to love my job until I suffered a really horrendous miscarriage in Jan/Feb. My boss was a complete pig about the pregnancy and even worse about the miscarriage with regular comments like 'I thought I was safe employing you because you already have children' and the worst being ' I dont know why you are so upset (about the mc) because the baby was only [--] big' As you can imagine it was a horrible time and he had no right to say anything like that to me but I noted it and didnt take any action. I do not have a contract despite me working there nearly 2 yrs. I accepted the way he was being because I knew would get preg again and would be leaving permantly.
With this pregnancy I have already experienced a bleed (had an early scan all is well) and extreme tiredness and sickness! I am currently on week two of sick leave and the boss isnt paying me anything I have had to claim direct from the government. I am due to go back to work on wednesday this week. Yesterday I received a letter from the boss saying that he is cutting my hours due to a downturn in business to just 8 hours a week.
I will lose £200 a month in wages, nigh on £250 a month in WTC and childcare allowance but will also only be able to claim £38 a week maternity allowance when I go on ML instead of £81.
My question is - Is he allowed to cut my hours whilst I am on sick leave or while I am pregnant! I will of course be on the phone to ACAS tomorrow but I really dont know where I stand!!
Sorry for such a long first post but I am really upset by this and worried that stressing is going to harm my baby!!
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MrsSparkly · 02/08/2009 14:05
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