Help me resign from work following maternity leave & reduces hours refusal

[HotChocolatemarshmallows]

I'm due to go back to work after maternity leave. I requested to reduce my hours to anything other than full time but they refused to even reduce by an hour a day. No flexibility at all.
I knew this would happen as they just don't like part timers.

I've been asked to confirm if I'm returning full time or not at all via email but I don't know if I should rant or just put a one line resignation?

If you do resign, will you have to repay your maternity money? It may be worth considering before you make a decision

No I don't have to repay.
I'm
Resigning, I just want to know what to say

Dont rant.
Or, rather, write the ranty message if you feel the need, and delete it before sending a one liner resignation letter.

Don't burn your bridges. Just factually resign with a date

Have you submitted an appeal for your flexible working request? Might be worth doing that before resigning just incase?

If you are leaving, Just put in writing that you are resigning and your last day of employment we'll be x date.

And don't rant, keep it professional.

Don’t rant. Never burn your bridges. Be as brief as possible. They will know why you’re going but they don’t care, or else they’d have tried to keep you by offering you flexible hours. Fuck em. Go and work for an employer who recognises the value of part-timers. Best thing I ever did.

Don’t rant

Don't rant but I would state that it is due to the lack of flexibility if it were me. Nothing more than a simple statement

Be polite.

"Dear Boss, I write to confirm that I am resiginging from my post at XX. I understand that I must give A weeks notice, and that I currently have B days remaining of annual leave. I have calculated therefore that my last working day at XX will be C date. Please could you let me know that you agree with my calculations?
Regards,
OP"

Dear employer,

Please accept this letter as my formal notice of resignation effective XX date.

Thank you for the opportunity to work here, I wish you and the company much success.

Sincerely

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Seriously OP, there's no need to rant or even give any reasons. You've made up your mind, they've made up theirs. Short and to the point.

Well I would take the heat from start of maternity leave as you'll accrue more leave and resign with effect from then.

That should say take a year. You're under no obligation to give them a response unless the year is nearly up.

I was going to rant so glad I asked for advice on here first! 😁

When does the 12m of maternity end?

When does your maternity leave end/your paid maternity end?
Have you put a formal request in? If not then that's worth doing if you would still consider working there. They can only turn it down on certain grounds. ACAS have a page for information.

Definitely don't rant if and when you resign.

I am intrigued about the kind of business and workplace you have. Did you ask only your immediate boss to consider the flexible working request and they said no? If it is a larger workplace there will be policies and procedures that they should go through if someone requests flexible working etc. If your boss hasn't followed these you will have grounds to appeal. If there is a HR dept get in touch with them and let them know that your flexibility request wasn't considered properly - that you are open to many different arrangements and none were considered. Suggest you will put in a grievance (or put one in).

My friend applied to go term time only after a career break and the answer was an immediate and outright no.

The workplace had written policies about flexible working that included having a meeting with the person making a request and considering if it were possible to accommodate the request. None of this had happened. With a bit of pushback about policies not being followed and other options including the possibility of using unpaid parental leave she now has full term time working and is several years back into her role. She loves that she is off when the kids are. She had already climbed the scale in her job so would never be able to stumble across a job of that grade term time only. Fight for what you want.

I understand it is much more difficult if your boss has their own business and no-one to scrutinise their decisions.

I got HR and my manager and put in a formal request.