Recently my ds has been in hospital for 3 days and had chicken pox two weeks later. I work part time for a big employer. In total I had to take 6 days off unplanned annual leave in a month to care for him in hospital and at home due to no alternative childcare (and because my son needed me).
On returning to work I was given a really hard time only to read on this forum that I am entitled to parental leave (albeit unpaid). This was never mentioned and I have been made to feel like I should leave for fear that my son might be ill again.
I made my employer aware that, other than his nursery place, I had no emergency child care for times when he is ill before I returned to work from maternity leave.
Should my employer be acting in this way?