Need advice desperately! Will contact union on Monday but will go out of my mind this weekend ..
recently told the head I am pregnant and head of HR. Was clear I wanted it to be kept confidential and only those 2 people were allowed to know at present.
Just had timetable through for next academic year (done by a different member of SLT) and I’ve been allocated approx 45% of my maximum load to my subject specialism. New member of staff joining in September has been allocated pretty much 100% of their max load to our subject specialism.
We are overstaffed anyway so I anticipated only being able to teach 80% of my max load within subject specialism and when filling out the distribution/allocation spreadsheet for our small department I made sure both staff had 80% of our max load in our subject specialism.
Two massive concerns here are: has confidentially been breached to make the SLT in charge of timetables allocate my teaching load like this? I feel like I can’t share this timetable with the new incoming member of staff because it quite simply raises all sorts of questions I’m not prepared to answer until I know my pregnancy and baby are doing fine.
I can almost guarantee my timetable would not look like this if school weren’t aware of my pregnancy.
also, is this discrimination? ive taught at the school for years and always had a fair share of the subject specialism. I’m almost certain I’m employed as a teacher of ___subject rather than the contract (which btw they can’t show me because it got lost when school became a MAT - a year after I joined) saying “just” a Teacher.