Sainsburys Nightshift Confusion.

[JustDanni]

Has anyone worked for sainsbury on the nightshift here who has any idea of what the hell is going on?
I told my line manager the DAY (around 4 weeks) found out I was pregnant due to risks at work. (heavy lifting and pulling etc)
He basically told me to keep quiet until 12week scan had confirmed everything was ok. No risk assessments were done.
DH who also works as my team leader/supervisor felt this wasnt right and while I was off sick due to Hyperemesis he confronted the store manager who said assessments should be done and I should be take off of nights. (now 9 weeks pregnant)

But appon phoning today to arrange a meeting I was told to come I for my shift on Friday night and we will discuss it Saturday morning.
They want to assess the risks of working nights... the morning after I have worked a nightshift.
Im thinking of joining up with the union because I'm not sure they have a clue what the protocol is.
Has anyone had this experience with Sainsburys or other retailers?
I'm so confused.

While I can totally understand needing a risk assesment against lifting and pulling, I dont get why you would need to come off nights unless lifting and pulling is the only thing that is done on nights.

I work for asda and worked on the night shift. I totally understand where you are coming from because there is a lot of heavy lifting and pulling and general hard work involved. I fell pregnant and my night manager wasn't really interested. He gave me the hardest/biggest delivery aisle (health and beauty grrrr) and just left me to it. I asked several times for a checkout role or front end role which doesn't involve lifting and was told no. I also asked for risk assessments etc because I wasn't convinced that I should have been doing what I was doing, especially in the early stages (have had 2 miscarriages)

One night I was pulling a crate from the warehouse and the whole thing collapsed on me and I was on the floor with loads of stuff mounted on top of me. My colleagues helped me up and my manager laughed. I was sent home by another manager and the following night I was asked to the office to sign the risk assessment forms which had been dated for 3 weeks earlier. I refused until they changed the date - they were trying to cover their own arse because they knew fine well the risk assessments should have been done as soon as they knew I was pregnant.

My advice is get them to sort out risk assessments ASAP and ask if you can swap roles in night shift to Checkouts or similar if you want to stay on nights. I transferred to dayshift when I was about 18 weeks pregnant because night shift was so tiring and just too much for me. The money wasn't as good but I wasn't as tired or worried about going into work

Yes. the only available work on nights is HEAVY as sainsburys isnt open 24 hours!! Also im doing 10hr shifts and you don't see anyone from one hour to the next. I work H&B every shift then normally put on cream and chilled desserts. 6 ft rollers of heavy liquid like cream and yogurt isnt smart really.

They want me off of nights asap as nightshift has its own health risks as it is without being pregnant also. Im having a tough time with sickness and fatigue so they advise I move, HOWEVER t0a friend (who is a union rep) said I wouldnt loose my nightshift premium as im moving for pregnancy related reasons and it can be seen and discrimination.

Baffled!