Maternity Discrimination?

[Mummie96]

Hi!

I’m just looking for some advice and to see whether I’m upset for no reason!
I am currently on maternity leave and every year my employer has a team away day whereby we’re treated to a day of activities outside of the office. This year it is an all expensed overnight stay and dinner in a nice hotel. All employees get invited however this year I have not been because I am on maternity leave.
They haven’t communicated with me regarding the event, I have found out through a colleague.
I can’t help but feel left out and upset with the lack of invitation. I might not even have accepted but the plain fact I wasn’t thought about is kind of upsetting me.

My question is, how would you feel and really is this maternity discrimination?

thanks xx

Thank you for your responses. I want to add that I have no intentions of going in “all guns blazing” or even mentioning discrimination as I love my job and the team are great and wouldn’t want to jeopardise that. It was purely a question out of curiosity. I didn’t know it I was being unreasonable for feeling slightly left out. Thanks again.

No I haven’t asked yet as I wasn’t sure if I was being cheeky or unreasonable to ask to go

Not unreasonable or cheeky at all op, you should have the opportunity to go ☺️ There's every chance it was an oversight. Not great but it can be easily done. I have forgotten to update people on mat leave about work related news they should have been told about, genuine mistake, and been mortified when I've realised!

That's because they were unfairly dismissed not just because of lack a party invitation.

Another typical of picking and choosing. It is was a day of sitting in a stuffy office, no meal provided, going over boring stuff, with no benefit to employees, would you scream discrimination because you were not invited? I bet not, but because it's a fun event, probably arrange to reward the hard work the staff has put in the last year, you feel entitled to be part of it.

I wasn't invited to anything while I was on maternity leave, as they rightly assumed I didn't give a fig about anything or anyone work related 😂

The obvious solution is to email whoever you've been in contact with regarding KIT days and ask if the 2025 away day has been arranged as you would like the details to see if you can organise being there for t least part of it.

I’ve put in hard work for years and just because I’ve had a baby doesn’t mean I don’t deserve it. I’m entitled to company benefits, this is a benefit I am missing out on.

Just email your manager and tell them you'd love to go. It could be a simple oversight or they might be worried about setting unreasonable expectations of you during your maternity leave.

Not JUST because of the party no, but the judgement is available to view and it does specifically state she was discriminated against because she wasnt invited to Christmas drinks.

There are several parts to the claim, but part of her award was because of discrimination/hurt feelings.

Anything you are left out of BECAUSE you're on mat leave IS discrimination. I don't understand why anyone would find that confusing, but some responses on this thread show otherwise!

I would ask where your invite is, nicely, if you want to go. I wish I'd be left out of stuff like this personally 😂