Paid time off for midwife appointment

[Holly94]

I've got my midwife booking in appointment in July and when I told work (I'm on a part-time contract but I do over time every week so essentially work 30+ hours a week) the date my manager said I'd have to come in after I've had it and she'll change my hours. She said I won't get paid for the hours I'm not there.
Just looked and it says you can have paid time off for antenatal care? Is this right and should I bring it up with her? Or is it just those people who work full time that get this?
I've had issues with her earlier this week when she told me I couldn't apply for a bigger contract because I'm pregnant, which has been referred onto HR.

Yes, you are entitled to paid time off.

It's reasonable for an employer to ask if you can arrange appointments to minimise impact on your working life, but if that's not possible they just have to pu up with it.

Refer this to HR too - they should know better than your LM.

I think it might just be paid time off during your contracted hours. Overtime hours dont count i think but definitely try and change your contract if you do more hours anyway as it may affect your maternity pay. I could be wrong though!

Yes, you are entitled to paid time off for Antenatal appointments and your employer would be breaking the law if they refused to give you it. Working full or part time doesn't come into it. You might want to point in the direction of this website

Thanks everyone. She's just started and really doesn't seem to have a clue on how to deal with pregnancy.

You're entitled to paid time off for antenatal appointments, but I believe that in the case of part-time workers, employers can reasonably ask you to try and arrange antenatal care outside of your contracted working times as far as possible.

Obviously though, this isn't always possible (i.e. if the midwives at your GP surgery only do antenatal appointments on days when you normally work), so you should be still given the paid time off if the appointments can't be arranged for outside your contracted working times.

I work part time so also looked into this and your employer can ask you to change your hours to fit around appointments and then don't have to pay you. All depends if you are contracted to certain shifts though. Mine is 25 hours over the week and even though I always do same shifts it doesn't say that in my contract so they can change them x