Redundancy’s at work help !!

[Pinkflower23]

Hi,

I’m currently 18weeks pregnant with my first. Still haven’t told work. I have a scan tomorrow and I planned to tell my manager on Wednesday providing everything went well at the appointment.

So today 9am I get to work and everyone gets called in for a meeting. There is a total of 7 of us and they want to make 1 person redundant. We have individual consultations on Wednesday! The day I planned to tell my manager.
Honestly I don’t think it will be me just because of certain important duties I do. But if I say something now I feel like they are going to think I’m only telling them now because of the redundancy’s. If I don’t tell them someone will get made redundant and then I’ll announce my pregnancy and leave in 4/5 months. Meaning they will in effect be down by two people and I could have saved someone’s job. If I do this will I have a job to come back to after maternity.

Please help I don’t know what to do.
Thanks xxxxx

Tell them ASAP.

I'd tell them now. Explain you were waiting for the scan before telling them but the redundancy announcement means you are telling them now so they have the full picture

@Pinkflower23 - have you told them?? I agree with PPs that you should tell them ASAP.

Tell them asap and get yourself the extra legal protection that it gives you. It's not a guarantee that you can't be made redundant but it holds them to a higher threshold before they can pick you over others.
Being an extra person down in a few months time is not relevant as that is the case if no redundancies happen.

This happened to me earlier this year. I found out I was pregnant on Feb 14th, then work announced there would be redundancies 2 weeks later. Our team specifically would be losing 1 person out of 10. I did then tell my manager a few days later. I wasn’t planning on telling them so early, and to be honest, it’s not illegal to make a pregnant woman redundant, so long as the company can prove they were the most appropriate person to go. We had a 45 day consultancy period, then the individual consultations and the selection was done via a scoring criteria, with the lowest scoring person being the one who will be made redundant. Even though they weren’t offering voluntary redundancy, we were asked as part of the consultation whether, in the event of a tie break, we would be interested in putting ourselves forward to be made redundant. I considered this, as I would be leaving work after my 25th week of pregnancy so would get my redundancy payment plus company maternity pay (they had previously confirmed they would pay this as part of the consultancy period negotiations, but in the end I decided to say no and leave it to the other tie breaker which is length of service, as I’d rather have a job to come back to after my maternity leave. As it is, I wasn’t the lowest scoring person in the team, but the person who will be leaving has now been offered to be my maternity cover, so unless he secures another job in the business in the meantime, he will actually take redundancy and leave after I’ve returned from maternity leave next year.