im rubbish at wording things well and I need help, that is if you think I'm not being unreasonable in my argument.
I work for a large company, office based key worker. During lockdown we WFH every day. We are now back in a few days a week. My DC nursery has been operating reduced hours since June so I've been making up my extra hours during 1 evening, something that quite a lot of us have done rather than take a pay cut and this has worked well. The company can see how much im doing of an evening so no queries there. I've actually churned out more work than ever with no distractions.
On Friday I was advised that as of September this arrangement will come to an end, although we will still be WFH half of the week.
My nursery have said that they are continuing to review their reduced hours and it will change at some point between September and xmas but they won't give a firm date yet.
My 2x dc are very settled there and after an odd few months I dont want to move them when potentially a week or 2 later they could go back to fully operational.
My company have said that I now need to decide to change childcare provider or drop my hours and pay.
I feel like this is an unreasonable request. We are still in the middle of a pandemic and just because my company are trying to return to normal ASAP, the rest of the UK is not necessarily doing the same. I can't afford to take a paycut and there is absolutely no reason why I can't continue to top up my missing 2.5 hrs a week during 1 evening, other than they don't want me to.
AIBU? I want to write to HR manager but no idea what to say without sounding like im being an idiot