Mat Leave & frequent work contact

[Housing101]

Have posted on Legal board too. Hoping for any insight from anyone who's been through similar.
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I am at the end of my maternity leave.

Numerous things went wrong while away, generally due to manager or HR's incompetence. There have also been training sessions I have been asked to attend and did.
So many, many emails back and forth throughout. There has not been a single week where I have not received something from them or some request.

I was not offered KIT (keeping in touch days) despite them being offered in contract, paid. I'm now trying to claim a small proportion of the time spent back as wages. This really would be a small percentage of the actual hours I have spent available to them over my leave. Now they are playing silly beggars and trying to reduce these hours even further. It's upsetting. I've been completely unpaid for several months now.

Is there anything I should do? Or just suck it up and put it down as my mistake for engaging with them.

Any training sessions you attended should be counted as KIT days surely?

Can you look for a new job?

KIT days normally have to be agreed in advance.

When they asked you to do training sessions you should have agreed with them that it was a KIT day.

What have the emails been about? Asking you to do work or just arranging for you to attend the training sessions etc?

Unfortunately I think it needed to be agreed that those sessions would be KIT days. It was either cheeky of them or they have someone in charge who doesn't know what they are doing. Were you aware that they could have been KIT days at the time?

Perhaps contact pregnant then screwed/maternity action/citizens advice?

Manager openly admitted not knowing what a KIT day was when I asked if I could do some.
That was already after doing several training sessions.

I think you need some legal advice - maternityaction.org.uk/advice-line/ on where you stand.