Please can anyone give me your thoughts and what I should say or could do.
Sorry if this is long post!!
When I returned to work after maternity leave I asked to work 3 days (25.5hrs) this was agreed on the basis that this shall be reviewed every 3 months and the needs of the business must come first. I got the sense that they were not keen on my working pattern and would have much preferred for me to take up 18hrs or 36. Never the less this was granted and worked well for us as a family as DH works part time and meant our DD went to mothers for one day a week and the rest we worked between ourselves.
2 months ago in supervision I was informed that I can no longer work my current working pattern and the service manager will only allow for 18 or 36 hrs and I needed to choose. I fought my case as best I could stating that 18 hrs were not enough and 36 hrs were too many, childcare etc (DD is 2 now). They declined to accommodate me in any other way.
Today at work I overheard a colleague telling another colleague that she shall be working 29 hrs and this has been agreed by the service manager. I had a chat with her and she told me that he had told her the same thing when she asked however on a recent blog he had written she drew to his attention that an 18 hr post could not be filled as none of the applicants wanted part time and that there were a few additional hours rolling around the team and therefore it would make a 29 hr post and could she have it and he said yes. So she shall have a permanent contract to reflect that.
The colleague in question I have no qualms with it is the sheer cheek and inequality of the matter and I feel cheated. (Although she has asked for the reduction of hrs due to childcare for her grandchild, as a parent I feel like a 2nd class citizen.
I want to write a strong email without being rude iyswim. Can you help.