Nanny 8wks pregnant being made redundant.- Any Advice?

[SugaryBits]

I am after some advice for a friend. She has been working as a nanny for some time and has recently found out she is pregnant.

Before she had a chance to tell her employers, they informed her she was being made redundant and was given 4 weeks notice. She has since told them she is pregnant.

Can they still make her redundant or does the pg make a difference to where she stands?

If the redundancy is unrelated to the pg (and it sounds like it is as they made her redundant before they knew about it) I don't think it makes any difference.
Bad luck for her though .

tell her to ring ACAS ... but they haven't made her redundant after they found out she was PG so that isn't the reason. It is awful timing tho'

Bad luck for her, but if she only told them about the pregnancy after they issued the redundancy notice I agree with the others - it doesn't make a difference.

have to agree with everyone else, because they told her before she announced the pregnancy, it makes no difference, i imagine her contract and the relevant notice and payments periods will stand

If I were your friend, I would go looking for another job before I started to show. And then tell them after I was hired.

I agree with Eleusis, she had better find another position soon as her choices will be very limited if she's showing!

Thanks for the help, looks like she doesn't have many choices. I don't think she will try to find a position without saying she is pregnant, she would feel too guilty!

Good luck to her trying to get a position the honest way then as not many families will take on a Nanny who is likely to only be there for 5mths!

Not to mention that 5 months may be spent at antenatal appointments, etc. If she needs the job, she better get a move on. If she does not need the job (i.e. lives with hubbie who can easily support all three of them) then I guess it doesn't matter.

Could she maybe sign up for one of the better respite/temp nanny agencies SugaryBits?

I'd employ a nanny with their own child, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who would too, if that helps. Looks like her post came to a natural end though, you don't want to force people to employ you. Just leaves her a bit stuck until then. She'd have to temp. As she was made redundant she may be entitled to some benefit.

she could negotiate with the family to work for them on a reduced rate, to keep her on, the gov would reimburse the family for maternity pay, it's a bit desperate tho

Not a good idea to try and get a job without telling her prospective familly that she is pregnant. That would be jeopardising a relationship which is very much based on trust before she has even started.

Temping is a good plan I think. Lots of people seem to need emergency childcare etc.

i thought in order to qualify for maternity pay etc you had to have been in the job before you got pregnant?

Advice for employees due to give birth after 1st April 2007
From reading that briefly, looks to me as though won't get SMP, but would get MA. (see page 6 of the above PDF)

Thanks everyone, will pass the info on to her.