Who has lost their job due to school closures?

[iwlalo]

I'm pretty sure I'm about to. School will not accept my 3dc and my workplace are not being understanding.

Is there anything I can do if they sack me based on the fact I need to look after my dc?

There are many other jobs apart from healthcare which can’t be compromised.

Healthcare isn’t the only profession that can’t have its schedule adjusted!

Oh well, let's just assume based on no information about either person's job apart from that he's "full time" that he's MUCH more important than his wife then.

@MRex

Oh well, let's just assume based on no information about either person's job apart from that he's "full time" that he's MUCH more important than his wife then.

He may well get paid a lot more, which sadly for the purpose of paying bills makes it ‘more important’. That’s our situation anyway. I’ve had to go on unpaid leave as we can just about live without my pay (although we are having to sell our house) but we can’t live without his. Of course this may not be the case at all, but we also can’t assume that his job is flexible. Many aren’t.

Are you working from home? Can you each do 1.5 hours with the children in the evening? And a bit at the weekend?

And maybe he doesn't earn more, and maybe his job could be flexible if he bothered asking.

It's a huge societal issue if women keep deciding their jobs must be the one to pick up the slack, and risks increasing sex discrimination in future. Decisions should start from the point of both parents being equally important, with very good reasons needed to make one parent's interests subservient to the other.

@IPead - did your DH even ask for flexibility so you could keep your job, to allow his employer to say yes? If not, you really need to have a think about why that is.

[quote MRex]@IPead - did your DH even ask for flexibility so you could keep your job, to allow his employer to say yes? If not, you really need to have a think about why that is.[/quote]
Yes he did... do you think we didn’t try all available options before taking the drastic step of having to put our house on the market?
How stupid do you think people are?

Every decision we make as a family is with our family’s best interests in mind. In the past, this has resulted in my working full time while DH has picked up the slack at home.
At present, DH has no slack and we rely on his income more than mine. Nothing to do with subservience, everyone to do with practicalities and staying afloat.

Don’t leave your job.
I would drop the homeschooling before then. But agree your DH needs to step up too.
So one of you does and early shift before work? 7-8. Pop on BBC lessons for a few hours you both work. The other one does a lunchtime shift with kids. That’s 2 hours. That’s more than enough then you may have to work a bit later in the evening?

How old are the DC?
I know this is really hard but you are not expected to do three hours of teaching a day. Even just leave them with some colouring in (art!). Then put a film on.

@IPead - schools have been closed for less than a week, your DH's work had time to discuss and reject a range of flexible working requests, you've given up your job, you've presumably looked for other flexible work for yourself and you've put the house on the market. Phew, busy week you've had!

[quote MRex]@IPead - schools have been closed for less than a week, your DH's work had time to discuss and reject a range of flexible working requests, you've given up your job, you've presumably looked for other flexible work for yourself and you've put the house on the market. Phew, busy week you've had![/quote]
Oh come on, you’re being entirely disingenuous.
Schools were also closed back in March, until September. We went through all these issues then. We muddled through, and used up all goodwill available to us.
When schools closed again I had to request unpaid leave, which I am now taking. I haven’t left my job, which you’ll see from my previous posts. We used up all our savings in lockdown 1, so taking unpaid leave means we now can’t afford to pay our mortgage (DH has also taken a 20% pay cut to keep his job).
We have made the decision therefore to put our house on the market. It is being valued next week.
If you think these issues only arose a week ago then you’ve obviously been living under a rock for the past 10 months.

What do you think the rest of us are doing? We are working and homeschooling and muddling through! The schools are putting much more pressure on doing work this time which is not helpful. But taking turns with partner to work in shifts, catching up on work evening/weekend etc etc.

My sister is same. Kids 5 and 7. She is key worker. Husband is not. Boss has said no flexibility leave or stay. He's going to have to leave, can't pay mortgage or bills. Absolutely stuck.

Not everyone has a job they can do from home and juggle hours though.

For example, a supermarket worker, police officer, prison officer, court lawyer, social worker, refuse collector, delivery driver, warehouse or factory worker to name but a few.

My job has to be done “live” and I couldn’t do it with small DCs at home. I appreciate I’m lucky in that my dc is older but it’s not always as simple as juggling hours/requesting time off.

The school closures are an indirect assault on women’s ability to work and will result in poverty abd a return to a fifties’ style culture where women are returned to housewifery and childcare.

My partner is doing some flex hours and some parental leave. I'm KW but don't want my child in school right now.

Don't homeschool - speak to teachers and say you have half an hour a day for each child, what should be the focus. I've had parents say that to me, I've told them to do the maths. The kids can read, the kids can watch BBC telly from Monday. It's not forever. My child will actually BE one of the Teen Titans by the end of this.

Can’t you take unpaid leave? It’s not ideal but you won’t loose your job. I think there are laws they can’t sack you. I was just about to go and see my boss about unpaid leave on Monday, dreaded going in but at the last hour he was asking staff with childcare problems if they wanted furlough phew 😅 I really feel for you.

I think you need to sue your husband for discrimination....