To resigned from job?

If you don't need to be working rn then I'd say you've done the best thing for you. Irrational...? Maybe to others but to you absolutely not because it was causing you stress that you really don't need.
Sleep deprivation and hormones and baby is a challenge in itself without a stressful job/stressful work people.
Enjoy the festive season with your loved ones and think about work next year x

If hours are agreed in writing. Just say no.

If we let employers get away with pulling these stunts they will just continue to do them and more women will be penalised for going on maternity leave. Employers need to be held to account and shamed for their shitty behaviour or this kind of behaviour hits them in the wallet so they don't try it again!

This. Please pay attention to it.

Ah ok! Thanks, didn’t know that.

You have a good case for constructive dismissal. And you might have to go down that route if they try and claim back any maternity pay you received.

That aside, well done for resigning from a shit job that you hated.

Good luck with your new enterprise. You won’t regret it.

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I'm pretty sure that employers are not allowed to contact an employee whilst they are on maternity leave.

Changing your hours sounds dodgy too.

Definitely contact ACAS - looks very much like a case of constructive dismissal.

(and if you feel it's too late for all this, just get as many ducks as you can into a row and mention in your exit interview the real reason that you left and the fact you will be raising an ET on grounds that they have constructively dismissed you by breaching the return to work agreement and harrassing you. Should induce a nice brown trouser moment with the HR rep.)

This. Or rather, do the following

• raise a grievance against your manager for harrassment, stating that they are not confirming to the written agreement for your return to work hours
• Keep a diary of what has happened and continues to happen
• explain that you have resigned in protest about their behaviour but are prepared to reconsider your resignation if your grievance is resolved satisfactorily.
• If it isn't, confirm your resignation in writing but say you will be taking them to tribunal for constructive dismissal.

I'm not normally a fan of CD claims, but in this case you have written documentation of your return to work hours and they have clearly breached this. And of course you should include the fact that buggering up your agreed pregnancy return to work means they have breached all sorts of discrimination laws. Definitely worth pursuing a monetary resolution rather than just walking away! (Be clear in your own mind about what it will take to persuade you back to working for them, but I suspect if you make an Enormous Fuss, probably with solicitor support, they will be quite keen to pay you to go away.)

Constructed dismissal. Harassment by manager possibly.

You should google stuff if you don’t understand it! Constructive dismissal is not what you think it is. 🙈

Reading between the lines OP, your manager is very demanding and personally I wouldn't accept being constant texts out of hours like this. I think it's unreasonable, whether you've got children or not.
I'm wondering if you are being managed out of your job? It's a conversation to have with HR, especially if you are having to pay back mat leave.

Constructive dismissal is when conditions are made so unpleasant for someone that they feel they have to resign. It doesn’t mean actual dismissal

You over reacted you are entitled to reasonable adjustments. You should have complained about LM. You just turn up and do your contracted hours. Switch the work phone OFF. She is harassing you and she is not entitled to ask you to work outside of your contracted hours.

your call if you want to fight or get something else but I would stay working so you have independence. Think it will be harder to get a new job to fit your hours than fight for this one

OP wasn’t dismissed

Just refer back to the agreement and say you are unable to agree to any change. Stand firm.

The fact that you were being called whilst on maternity leave is just wrong and HR should have sorted this out for you.

you can retract your notice if you did it in haste but the longer your leave it, then it can’t be withdrawn.
Do you have your hours etc written down?

ask for company mobile as you can say they don’t have the right to call you on your personal mobile anymore.

put in a complaint and don’t speak to manager anymore. Get them to email you so you have a paper trail.

or if you can survive then don’t go back. If you are sick then they aren’t allowed to contact you about work. Only an agreed well being check.

I wonder if this could fall under constructive dismissal/maternity discrimination, creating a work environment not tenable for you to continue working there. However it’s tricky to prove. You could contact Pregnant And Then Screwed, that have a have a free helpline. Worth finding out your rights. But bear in mind, if you go down that route it can be an energy draining fight!

I really don’t think there are grounds for constructive dismissal. Unless OP has already raised with HR they are not honoring the agreed hours since she returned and has raised a grievance.

Arranged childcare can't be rearranged easily, the manager sounds like an absolute tool.

Personally it irritaes me when people don’t bother to read properly.

Did you miss the bit where the agreement was made between both parties and the manager renegaded on that? Did you miss the bit where OP said that the manager was contacting her multiple times through mat leave like that it’s appropriate?

Did you actually bother to read what the OP put in their replies before piping up with your misinformed and arguably discriminatory comments?

I sincerely hope you’re not a manager.

It's obviously up to you if you have decided to leave and can afford to etc, but my first action would've been to contact HR

Do you have anything in writing? If so they can't just go changing without express agreement and plenty of notice. As for contracting out of hours this can be seen as harassing depending on the frequency and reasoning. I would definitely run this all passed a union rep as really difficult to give sound advice without all the information

Agree probably a manager somewhere else! 😂If society wants women in work they have to make allowances and allow for flexible working. Childcare in this country is inflexible you can't just change the days your child is at nursery to suit your business. Men are not allowed much flexibility at all, it's shit and it shouldn't be that way but we all know it's true. My partner was having kittens about rearranging a work meeting so he could go to our youngest's Christmas concert. There was absolutely no way he could tell them it was for a school concert which I found absolutely bizarre! He put drs appt in his calendar. I bet Weefox is one of those people who moan about working at Christmas when people with kids get to have it off as well. 😂