hope you can offer some advice - have posted in AIBU for traffic - sorry it’s so long!!
Been on mat leave since June 2019, had my first DD in July - when on mat leave my KIT days were taken from me and cancelled when I was due to attend an overseas work trip. My manager removed me from this 2 weeks prior as he felt I hadn’t communicated enough with them and he was unsure if I was attending. It had been my plan to attend since before I went on mat leave, & I had completed and overseas form attendance trip 2 months prior to attending. However I was removed.
I then raised a case with HR as I felt like this was the tip of the iceberg with a few things that had happened in my pregnancy such as
- removed from events where alcohol/late nights would be present
- mat leave starting 4 months prior to me finishing and taking over
- passed over for a promotion & manager stated to me he would struggle to promote me due to extended period of leave
After I raised this HR case I wasn’t invited to the work Christmas party or offered KIT days for a sales meeting due to take police 3 weeks before my return to work (so would have been very beneficial). My manager claimed due to my lack of response on the above event, he didn’t invite me to further events.
I had a meeting with my Hr department and manager early this year - my manager basically disputed all my claims and we didn’t reach a resolution. I advised HR that with a young baby to support I had no option but to ignore my discomfort at how I was treated and get back to work.
So I extended my mat leave to ensure I could take a full year plus annual leave. My team are at risk of redundancy where 2 of us are at risk, I was informed of this.
My manager sent me an email 8 days before I was due to return with a list of things to do on my first day back - other than this there was no contact since our face to face HR meeting, other than a 15 minute phone call where I phoned him out of the blue to discuss redundancy.
I returned to work last week at 8.30 and was called at 8.35 by my head of dept to tell me I was in the final 2 at risk of redundancy and now furloughed.
A few days ago I had my individual consultation where my HOD advised I scored 7/15 - note: I am the longest standing member of the team and have never received anything other than praise for my work. One element I scored a 2/5 for was my industry knowledge- my HOD advised this was due to the fact everyone else in the team has been in the industry longer than me. I am the youngest in my team by several years - so can’t match some experience my colleagues have as I was in secondary school when they were starting out.
I’ve spoken to ACAS who basically advised as I raised a HR case previously with comments of a discriminatory matter - I shouldn’t suffer any further detriment I.e. redundancy.
This is now being looked into by the redundancy HR manager (she was unaware of my previous HR claim).
Can someone advise where I stand on this? Are my work allowed to do this? My bosses are very big on team culture (In fact the reason they told me I didn’t get a promotion was because I didn’t call everyone in the team enough to say hello! We are field based) I feel like I’ve ruffled some feathers and now they think the easy option is to get rid!