To have done a job interview at 20 weeks pregnant and not disclosed

Quite. And now there is a poster saying they don’t think I deserve enhanced mat pay at all. Despite my employer offering it and encouraging me to take it! Complete fucking madness.

I tend to enjoy every single penny of that enhanced mat pay which will land in my bank account each month. I may even use it to travel for a month with my baby whilst I have the time off work. That’ll really piss these posters off

I agree with you to be honest. However legally I’ve acted I do need to accept I’ve started off my employment with them on the wrong foot. Unless their behaviour becomes actively harmful or bullying, I will be accepting it. At this stage it’s pretty much just not being chatty with me anymore. Not worth going to HR about.

I want to use my remaining 3 months there to try and rectify things as much as possible. I don’t intend to start leave until my due date for starters. Now my morning sickness is under control it’s an otherwise very manageable and easy pregnancy. Hopefully it remains that way and I can stay as long as possible. Obviously I’ll put mine and baby’s health first if need be but for now the plan is to stay until I’m due to drop

Nope.

But equally don't think any organisation should be paying MAT leave for someone that hasn't had a significant work history and then the employee thinking they're being victimized.

OP worked for 13 months and had 2 months sick and a month A/L and now just about to go on MAT leave for months in 10 weeks as OP says she thinks she'll work till then. Though she likely will not.

Lets say she comes back early, at 9 months post-partum but part-time as OP intends.

So in 2 years of paid employment she works for less than a year as AL accrues on MAT leave.

She's been employed for 2 years and paid for more than a year she didn't work.

If you don't see why that would be a problem for any employer, and think that's pregnancy discrimination, I don't know what to say to convince you how that is a huge problem.

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I hired a woman who was 36 weeks pregnant. She didn’t disclose her pregnancy during the interview process and I thought good for her. We hired a temp to cover her maternity leave. The employee is back now and is excellent at her job and the right decision was made.

i feel very strongly about protecting all employees in the workplace and treating them fairly; and in accordance with the law.

One important factor here is that the OP is already working for the company and that job and the associated maternity rights would still have stood. She would not have been unemployed or not covered for maternity leave.
There is no way of knowing whether she would or would not have been offered the promotion if she had disclosed at interview. We all suspect not, but cannot know for sure.
If she had declared at interview and not been offered it, for whatever reason, the company would have noted her honesty and integrity, as I said upthread and this can only be to her benefit. As it is her card is marked in a negative way.

One important factor here is that the OP is already working for the company and that job and the associated maternity rights would still have stood. She would not have been unemployed or not covered for maternity leave.
There is no way of knowing whether she would or would not have been offered the promotion if she had disclosed at interview. We all suspect not, but cannot know for sure.
If she had declared at interview and not been offered it, for whatever reason, the company would have noted her honesty and integrity, as I said upthread and this can only be to her benefit. As it is her card is marked in a negative way.

That’s pretty black and white. I’m speaking from the perspective of a wonderful business owner with excellent mentoring and support for all. Surprisingly, they prefer all knowledge at interview. Then perhaps they can offer job shares / short term contracts whilst the pregnant person is away / offering the job to several people. It’s called being open and mutually respectful.

I’m 25 weeks pregnant.

My original manager knew from 6 weeks in January as HG (severe morning sickness) kicked in at 6 weeks and I ended up on the sick for 2 months. After 2 months I returned as I’d found a medication protocol that allowed
me to get back to normality. I worked in an entry level customer service role. They have dozens of staff so my pregnancy didn’t really affect the team that much.

An internal role came up within the business in March. It would essentially be a promotion. Pay rise, more responsibilities (but generally nicer hours and less front-line customer contact, which is a huge bonus), no weekends, smaller team. I applied expecting nothing to come of it. I surprisingly got invited for an interview in April. I was 20 weeks when I interviewed. I had pondered over whether to disclose the pregnancy at the interview. This internal department is in a different part of the building to where I worked so they don’t know me at all. And my line manager at the time confirmed they wouldn’t tell them about the pregnancy and that it was up to me when I disclose. This job role that had come up was something I’ve desired to get into ever since joining the company, and I really wanted to give it my best shot, so I decided not to disclose, as was my legal right.

I interviewed at 20 weeks in April and felt I hid the bump well. We clicked really well at interview and they really liked me. They asked about pre-booked holidays etc. they then asked “Is there anything else we need to know about?” and I cheerfully said “no”. I felt awful about this at the time but on the other hand, as I said, I wanted them to review me as a candidate fairly without just being seen as “the pregnant candidate”.

Middle of May I got offered the role and accepted. The call where they offered the role was very rushed as they were snowed under, and I didn’t get chance to disclose the pregnancy as she said “Right I’ll be in touch when I’ve got a start date I need to go now, take care!” and abruptly hung up.

The next day (my final day before 17 days of annual leave) I messaged the new manager asking if she had time for a call and she never replied. I wanted to disclose the pregnancy then. I then went on the pre-booked
holiday and still didn’t have a start date.

Came back from my holiday and returned to work 26th May after the bank holiday and went to sit in my usual part of the office and got pulled away by my new manager, taken to their department and told I’m starting straight away. By this point I’m 25 weeks so I had to tell them. It was all quite rushed and they’ve been off with me ever since. Nobody has said anything but they aren’t friendly with me like they have been prior and at one point I was asked why I hadn’t disclosed at interview. They exclude me from friendly chat and I have to ask them what they want me to be doing with my time and my training.

I do feel awful for inconveniencing them but I don’t think I did anything wrong by not disclosing at interview. I had intended to tell them earlier than when I did but I just never got the right moment. I thought we’d have a time to sit down together and go through contracts etc and I would’ve mentioned it then but this never happened.

I have seen there is another woman on the team who is pregnant and due to go on leave so I suspect they had intended me to take over from her and that is why they are pissed off. They hadn’t told me this at interview though. Ironically I’m actually due before this other woman so I can see why they are fuming but legally I’ve not done anything wrong. It does prove that if I’d have disclosed at interview they probably would’ve not hired me and would’ve made up a non-pregnancy related reason to justify it.

Am I am awful employee? I’m concerned that my relationship with my managers will never recover from this and it’s a shame as I really have a huge interest in this role and have every intention of going back full-time after mat leave.

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I hired a woman who was 36 weeks pregnant. She didn’t disclose her pregnancy during the interview process and I thought good for her. We hired a temp to cover her maternity leave. The employee is back now and is excellent at her job and the right decision was made.

i feel very strongly about protecting all employees in the workplace and treating them fairly; and in accordance with the law.

So you wanted the Op to be unemployed as a result of having a baby?

Of course they did - because they specifically asked about holidays booked, clearly indicating that they wanted to know if there were absence periods coming. Maternity leave is just that. Whilst you might not have done anything wrong legally, you have fucked them over - they hired you because they needed an employee to work soon, that’s kind of the point of hiring.

They aren’t being friendly to you. Seeing as you are obsessed with legalities, do they have a legal obligation to make chit chat with you? No. would you make chit chat with someone who deceived you? You hid the bump deliberately and you said there was nothing else for them to be aware of so I would say thats
deception , even if legally you’ve done nothing wrong.