missed promotion while on maternity

[Mairead86]

Hey all,

To cut a long story short my employer was supposed to post me all internal trawls to home. I received a few the month after I had my baby (september) but havent received any since (until i logged a query with HR funny enough i got one today:)) So a post came up in december for a promotion and i missed the deadline because I did not know about the job.

HR are saying they did post me out internal trawls...am i to believe that 7+ letter got lost by royal mail??

Basically their word against mine.

What can I do?

Very little you can do. Ask them to produce the evidence they sent you the posts - doubt they have it. However if the post is appointed to there is little that can be done really. Ask if they've interviewed yet and if not ask to make a late application. Other than that - welcome to the world of getting screwed jobwise on maternity leave

Has the post actually been filled? If so, not a lot you can do to change that but I would consider keeping your options open by recording your dissatisfaction in writing. It's probably some dappy administrator who forgot and is now getting appropriately admonished rather than anything more sinister but just in case there is anything else in future I would get it down in writing.

Think the interviews are over. i think it probably was a dose in the office and not discrimination but are they not required by law or something??

im really pissed! i missed the opportunity of a 4x increase on my salary!!

I think they are supposed to keep you in touch but tbh - if they say it was posted and you say you never got it - who can say whats what? I would suggest you write to the pointing out the oversight and asking them to e-mail all future bulletins to you - then there should be a record of them being sent to you.

They are required by law, yes. But it itself it's not something worth bringing any kind of claim about. Record your concerns in writing, then if a pattern emerges of failing to do various maternity-related stuff, you could bring a formal grievance.