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Question about rights at work

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hullaballoo19 · 17/10/2021 17:12

I only work 15 hours a week and just qualify for SMP. I work 3 days a week for 5 hours a day. My employer has never had someone on maternity before so all the rules are new to her (though I highly doubt she's looked into them much). I've just been having a read and seen that I have to be given paid time off for maternity appointments when 'reasonable'. I'm not sure what reasonable really means.. I book my midwife appointments myself so have always arranged them for non working days, but my scans (I have to have extra scans) are just sent to me in the post. Do I have to try and rearrange the scans for non working days to make it reasonable, as in, if I can't rearrange to a non working day then having paid time off is reasonable? Or am I doing enough by always booking midwife appointments on non working days and can get paid time off for scan appointments? My scans will all be followed by a consultant appointment as well so will obviously be a bit longer. And the travel time to and from the hospital will probably work out to be about 45mins - 1 hour total. I've just checked and only 2 of my scans are on working days, and based on the time of the appointments for both I'd probably only be able to work about 2/2 and a half hours out of my usual 5, is this reasonable? Or do I need to be more reasonable and offer to make up my hours/rearrange the appointments/just take the time unpaid? Thanks for any help 👍

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hullaballoo19 · 17/10/2021 19:07

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MissLC · 17/10/2021 19:27

I think its reasonable if the appointments are necessary, i.e. appointments requested by your Healthcare provider. Unreasonable would be for things like private scans.
If you're given appointments then its reasonable. If you actively choose an appointment in the middle of the day probably not reasonable.
I think it might be more on your employer to argue they're Unreasonable appointments than for you to prove they are.
This is just my opinion though. I have no legal or employment law knowledge just my experience

hullaballoo19 · 17/10/2021 20:17

Thanks for your response @MissLC

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mummyh2016 · 17/10/2021 20:55

ACAS says reasonable covers the appointment and travel time to and from it. You're entitled to paid leave for all maternity appointments, whether it's a scan, midwife appointment or an antenatal class. If you're part time it might be nice on your colleagues to try and plan appointments on your day off but you don't have to, and like you say with scan appointments you don't get any choice as to when they're booked for anyway.

hullaballoo19 · 18/10/2021 13:54

Thanks @mummyh2016

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