right, where to start - am feeling a bit knocked about by this so will try and take it slowly...
I have a new boss (2 months ago) - I have been in company 10 years, she recently joined. She made a few comments at the beginning about the random work schedules of various people but I sent her an email with my "schedule" which included a working from home day (mid week). This schedule is quite often hypothetical as I have always been flexible and come in for meetings, or travelled abroad etc as and when necessary.
A comment was made yesterday about how she "doesn't like people working from home".
She also referred to my "day off".
Today I get an email inviting me to a meeting next week on my home day. As I have made very clear, when circumstances permit, I don't have a problem with this (although since one other party is dialling in, I am not convinced that presence is everything...). But the email then referred to "we can look at you taking your working from home time on either another date, or 2 half days (which I believe was originally agreed)" - the 2 half days are nothing to do with this and was my working pattern when I worked 4 days a week - not since 2007.
I am feeling a bit "got at" to be honest. I have worked from home to a greater or lesser degree for nearly 5 years. My previous bosses have never had a problem with it. I know, and they knew, that it was an efficient system.
Do I have any rights here? If it makes any difference, I do have a letter from 2005 confirming my return to work after mat leave and stating that I would be working partly from home, partly from the office. Since then all sorts of circumstances have changed - I was promoted, I went back to full time, I have moved further away (so one day less commuting makes a huge difference)...
Oh and if it has any bearing at all, I travel quite frequently, getting trains and planes at 6 or 7 in the morning and often returning 9, 10 or even 11 at night. I thought this was part of the flexibility..
Gosh, this is v long, sorry! But I was trying to put everything in. What should I do, how do I address this? I'd obviously like to come to some sort of arrangement that works for everyone and I don't feel means I lose out (I'm already pretty badly paid).
PS - I said I was efficient working from home - clearly today is an exception as I have 2 laptops running and this one is the one I am concentrating on most!!