Can anyone advise me on this? I am 23 weeks pregnant and have told my line manager and given the start date of my maternity leave as 6th July, just over a week before my due date. I am employed by a university and all staff were told last month that there would be redundancies this year. The people who will be made redundant will be told within the next two weeks. I am increasingly convinced I will be one of them.
I learned today of the Regulation 10 of the Maternity and Parental Regulations 1999 which appears to state that during maternity leave I have to be offered a suitable job if I am made redundant.
What I would like to know is if I bring the start date of my maternity leave forward to the earliest I can (last week of April), can they then make me redundant as they have to give me at least five weeks' notice I think, and it is five weeks on Monday until the last week of April when I could start my maternity leave if I brought it forward. So if I tell them that I want to start my mat leave on 26/04 and they then give me notice of redundancy, am I covered by the Regulation 10 as I won't actually be made redundant until my maternity leave has already started.
Sorry, this is a long and incoherent post, hope it makes some kind of sense.
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Facing redundancy shortly before maternity leave
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MarianneM · 19/03/2010 19:42
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