I'm a month away from returning to work at a small firm and having a few issues. Despite verbally promising a number of things both pre and during maternity leave, including face to face, with a month to go my boss just emailed and has gone back on practically everything agreed. In exchange for flexible working (dropping my days from 5 to 4) she's asking me to sign a new contract which doesn't include key rights from my first - these include right to share in profits and rights to equity in the company - she's also trying to do things like increasing my notice period.
One of the reasons I took the job 4 years ago was for these and because we'd always agreed I would work 4 days after returning, I have arranged childcare accordingly. Therefore it's not as simple as saying I will just go back 5 days. And I also want to see my baby at least one day a week.
Not only is what she's doing unfair, I've been advised it's also illegal. People have the same rights if they're working part-time as if they're working full-time. Essentially she's a bully - funnily enough, she's also a mother!
We have no HR department to go through and the company is very small and I'm the next most senior person. Any advice anyone could give me would be appreciated.
Many thanks