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Is this discriminatory?

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BBisTitanium · 29/05/2012 20:27

I work in aaledominated industry which is sufferring in the recession. Ive recently been redeployed as my post was redundant. I am in a new role (started end of april officially) and have found out I am pregnant with dc2.

This is my second turn through te redundancy process with this company and after the first i was the only team member left, and pregnant. I didnt tell them During the process as it would have jepardised my position (fact not opinion!).

Anyway to the point! I am going to tell work soon (after 12 weeks) and im aware that the news will not be well recieved by HR.
during the redundancy process the HR person actually asked me my intentions towards more children... Was this dicriminatory or just innappropriate?

My other question is ive recently discovered that my company pay new fathers two additional full paid paternity leave days on top of the ordinary paternity leave, they offer absolutely no enhanced benefits to maternity leave, is this discriminatory also?

Thanks for reading this is more of a thought process punctuated with questions...

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BBisTitanium · 29/05/2012 20:57

Sorry for typos! Male dominated... To correct but a few! Bump

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BBisTitanium · 30/05/2012 07:19

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Brugmansia · 30/05/2012 07:38

Asking about your intentions regarding children is probably discriminatory. It just shouldn't be a relevant factor. The difficulty would usually be trying to prove they selected you for redundancy because you were pregnant or they suspected you may in the future.

I doubt the maternity and paternity pay differences would be discriminatory. The statutory schemes are so different already that they're not really comparable.

RecursiveMoon · 30/05/2012 07:41

Congratulations BB! I agree with Brug.

BBisTitanium · 30/05/2012 13:14

Thanks brug and recursive i have no proo she said it an technically im still employed by the company just in a different dept, so no real gain to bringing it up yet. WRT informing work, i intend to tell my line manager face to face then send an email to him copying in the HR woman, but i want this to be purely factual, what would i have to say?
Also presumably if either party ask questions i dont HAVE to answer them if they arent factual? I almost feel im preparing for battle!

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BBisTitanium · 30/05/2012 20:09

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