Hi everyone,
Not sure if this is the right place for it, but I was wondering whether anyone had any advice about workplace restructures during pregnancy. The announcement hasn’t been official yet so I don’t have any formal letters etc, but my work is doing a major restructure and my role will be ‘impacted’. I can’t work out whether it counts as being selected for redundancy when they’re trying to sell it as a reshuffle.
As far as I understand, out of the three people doing my job at my level: one person will stay the same, one person will be demoted to lower level, and one person will be reallocated elsewhere (but I think stay the same level). Its been suggested we will all need to make a case for what role we would like.
Am I right in thinking that because I’m pregnant (18 weeks, work aware) that I’m legally protected and have to be given priority for roles? And that it would have to be a ‘suitable alternative’, i.e not the demotion? I’ve looked at pregnant then screwed, but because work haven’t said ‘and your alternative is redundancy’, I’m not sure whether my situation is included.
I would really appreciate any advice - as you can imagine the uncertainty has been hugely stressful. I feel like my pregnancy makes things so complicated - any new roles would kick in straight before my mat leave so will have no time to get my head around things before taking a year off!