Hi all,
I've written here a few times about work related things and it's been really helpful. My work are quite uptight and I just wanted to know if anyone can offer any advice before I email them.
I have two jobs as a freelance writer - one with full time hours, 9 hours a day five days a week and the other takes me around an hour and a half a week and actually provides more income than the full time hours.
I have been on sick leave from my full time job for the past four weeks and so have not been working the extra hours for my second job in this time. However my sick leave now ends and I am only entitled to £92 a week from now on.
I have extremely low iron which is the reason I have been off, because I am exhausted all of the time, and today I was diagnosed again with low iron despite being given more tablets, and also gestational diabetes.
I spoke about sick leave with my doctor and she agreed that it would probably be best to take off from my full time job until maternity because I'm not coping with it - no concentration, motivation and sleeping all the time!
She suggested I take sick leave from my full-time, don't accept sick pay and instead do my hour and a half of side work so that I still have an income until I go on maternity.
Do I have a right to do this? I also have so many appointments with my pregnancy as I am high risk, have bipolar disorder and also have inflammatory bowel disease so it's making it difficult having to take time off all the time anyway.