Finding work when pregnant?

[Treecreeper]

Hi,

Me and my husband are in the process of buying a house and moving from London back to the midlands(to be nearer to elderly parents etc who need a helping hand). This would involve my husband commuting 3/4 days a week to London until a transfer comes up for him in the midlands. I was planning on quitting my job as soon as the house came through and then finding some full time work in the midlands and/or retraining maybe.

Long story short, 2 months before the move and handing in my notice at work, going off to start our new life in the midlands etc, I've found out I'm now 5 weeks pregnant and totally freaked about finding any work! (Let alone being a first time mummy!!) By the time we get back and settled I will be nearly 3 months. I'm so worried that I won't find any work now and how we will cope with only one income. We could pay the mortgage and bills and still have a little left over from my husbands wage but not much. With no job I'll get no maternity pay or anything.

Has anyone else been in this situation? Have you found work while pregnant?

Have you given notice yet?

If you will have worked 26 weeks out of the 66 weeks prior to your due date, you can claim maternity allowance.

Companies aren't allowed to discriminate against you for being pregnant when job hunting although obviously it does happen. You can still job hunt, however personally I wouldn't tell potential employers about the pregnancy until a job offer has been secured!

No, I've informed my work that I am pregnant because of the work I do it means I've got to change some font working routine (as I often work with livestock etc). I don't intend on handing I my notice until the completion date on our new house has come through which will most likely behest end of January.

I've not heard of maternity allowance is it a government thing then? Do you not have to disclose the fact that you are pregnant then? Feel a bit better about it now, it's just all a very scary prospect

Xx

Silly auto spell! Must learn to read things back!!

You can go on maternity leave from when you are 25 weeks pregnant and you can take accrued holiday before that. Is there any way you can stick out your current job pushing the completion date on your new house out a few weeks etc, so that you actually take maternity leave from your current job? You can then give notice whilst on maternity leave but you will still get the 6 weeks at 90% pay and the rest at SMP.

Maternity allowance is at the same £ level as the non-90% part of SMP, I think.

Congratulations, by the way!

Also, is your DH's transfer likely to come through in the next 7 months?

Doctrine you can start may leave from 29 weeks, not 25.

Tree if you google Maternity Allowance it explains how you can claim it. You don't have to disclose to potential employers that you are pregnant.