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when can your employer actually make you go on mat leave?

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mustsleep · 30/01/2008 20:05

ok i am only 7 weeks pregnant and i do not have a particularly high flying job ( i clean at a school)

we are required to work during the summer hols but can do our hours in a big block and then have the remaining hols off etc

tonight at work my boss was asking when the summer hols start this year (22nd july) she said you won;t be here then wil you

yes i will i said i'm planning on doing my hours at the beginning of the hols saving all my holiday for the summer as i can;t get much childcare and she is unwilling to let me work my normal hours as she will have to open up for me (which is a little unfair imo)

and taking 4 weeks hols woring the first two week sthat the school will be open and then coming back for a week after and then leaving on mat leave

she was lie oh....do you think so i think that you will change your mind (i doubt it) it's only two hours a night

i said i might need to swap sections with one of the other girls as mine is upstairs and i have to cart loads of stuff up and down and all over a large area that i do downstairs ( i am actually doing more than any of the other staff and she knows it) none of them w3ant to swaop sections with me however0

I told one of the lasses i wor with what she had said and she was like of course you don't want to go on mat leave 8 weeks b4 you are due but she can make you if she think's you can't do the job (it is vaccing ffs) i said that i did not think she could actually make me leave early

can she?

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mustsleep · 04/02/2008 10:28

yep i had all the week before last off hoping that she would actually realise how much i do do

when anyone else is off we finish in the same amount of time, when the boss is off we seem to finish quicker

when i was off she had one woman working an hour over and another working two hours over and she still doesn't think that work is maybe shared out unfairly

i have emailed h&s about this and also due to the fact that none of the equipment we use is electrically tested

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