AIBU to expect work to tell me when my line Manager changes?

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I'm Pregnant (39wks) and I've been on Maternity Leave 3 weeks. I dropped my Line Manager an email today just to say there's no news yet. He replied: "I no longer look after (or anywhere else), does. Keep in touch though"
I emailed someone else to get some more info and it turns out this changed 2 weeks ago, part of a more general re-shuffle at that level.

I feel upset that they never bothered to tell me this, and that within a week of stopping work for ML it's as if I've been forgotten.
AIBU and what would you do now?

I think YABU, but only because it wouldn't bother me in the slightest if this happened to me! (Plus I'd doubtless hear about it through multiple Facebook updates anyway )

YABU because surely the new person isn't your line manager until you go back. It's perfectly possible that there would be yet another line manager by the time you go back to work.

I'm on maternity leave at the moment, have been since January. I had a difficult pregnancy & after talking about mat leave & annual leave with my boss we decided it would be easier to sort it out once I'd had the baby.

Fast forward 9 months and I suddenly thought "oh, boss never did call me about my annual leave." I then found out completely by chance via facebook that he'd retired 6 months earlier & we have a new boss now who I've never met.

Would it have been so hard just to send me an email letting me know? Having said that work didn't even send me a card after I'd had the baby, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

YANBU - you might need to have contact with work while you're on mat leave, to organise Keeping In Touch days, changes to mat leave, flexible working requests etc.

I wouldn't worry about it - I'd be giving any heavily pregnant woman time to themselves and not stressing them out about stuff for at least the first 5/8/11 months depending on the ML they are planning on taking.

YANBU because work are supposed to tell you if your 'point of contact' changes while you're on Mat leave. However it is very common as I found out after spending a few weeks trying to arrange my return to work.

Work know I'm planning to take 6 months ML, and the old Line Manager knows that I want to organise Keeping-In-Touch days, and need to hear about Flexi-leave deadlines (we all know that the HR dept are hopeless, and there's high staff turnover in HR). It worries me because they could fail to tell me something more serious like if we move offices (which we will within 2 years; could be sooner).

Funky I have several times said they should feel free to contact me by email (but not expect fast responses). I'd hate to be in the dark for 5 months.

Waiting I view it that I still have a line Manager, on leave or not, so if it changes I need to know. I need to sort out K-i-T days and probably book Annual Leave with my Line Manager while on ML. It's not something that changes that frequently, but yes it may change again.

And I don't FB much, and have no FB contact with anyone at work. Not going to find out that way.