I work directly with a colleague who is currently on MAT leave. She's back in a couple of weeks. She was full time and is moving to 2.5 days a week. We're both at senior level. I found out on Thursday that our work was being redistributed to suit her change of hours (understandable). However, I feel the distribution is entirely uneven and unfair. I've been left with all the accountability i.e. all the KPI work which accounts for about 85-90% of the work load and all the team management work.
I'll be working 5 days and calculate there's about 6.5 days of work in there in reality. She's doing 2.5 days and it's more like 0.8 days of work.
I want to be helpful to her circumstances and I can't speak to her about it until she's back so I've no idea how she'll feel about it. Either completely relieved she'll have very little to do or pissed off she's lost areas of work that might help her career development.
However, I can't help but be pissed off that we're on the same pay bracket but I'll be the only one doing the work that we're held accountable for. I've basically been left all the hard work that causes all the stress.
I tried to chat it through with my boss but she didn't see some of the tasks we discussed as being time consuming when they really are.
How do I tackle this while remaining sensitive to someone coming back from MAT leave to a changed role (allbeit because she's changed her number of days). I'm currently doing both our roles (which has already pissed me off as she should have had cover). I clearly couldn't do two jobs so stuff has had to get sidelined. I was looking forward to getting some normality back and not having to do two jobs when I was told she's not coming back full time and I'll be doing the lion's share.