2 employment issues

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I was on a years FTC which was renewed for another year a few weeks ago.I had a review and everything was fine.
As od today I am apparently terrible at my job and have been invited to a disciplinary hearing with a view to terminating my contract immediately.The company is making big losses and I think they are trying to get out of paying me 4 weeks notice.
The second issue is this.I am the business's only part-timer. my contract is for a fixed 20 hours a week to fit in with school drop off and pick up which was specifically negotiated to be such, and indeed I relented a bit on salary for this concession.But my employers don't respect this at all, they are always pulling me into meetings, or asking me to do things shortly before my 'finishing time' and then I am literally having to run out of the door to get to school on time.They expect me to change my hours to fit in with meetings whereas fulltime employees are not asked to change their working hours.Is this discrimination against a part time employee? Also in a bid to save time they had to cut about 6 hours a.week and they cut mine, I have never heard of a fulltimer in the business being cut down to part-time, but because I am part time anyway, they don't see it as a big deal.

any help please?

Well they won't be able to not pay you your notice unless it's a gross misconduct issue, and as you have less than two years employment in their shoes I'd rather pay notice and terminate now than go through a process of trying to demonstrate it's gross misconduct. So I think it's unlikely you won't get paid notice.

Asking you to do stuff shortly before your contracted finish time is annoying but it isn't unlawful. In terms of asking you to change your working hours to fit in with meetings, well it depends on whether the meetings could be accommodated another way, and also on what your contract says about hours of work. With cutting your hours, without knowing more detail about it, and again about what your contract says about variation, it would be very difficult to prove that the only reason your hours were cut was because you were a part timer. Plus ultimately, if you refused the change to your hours, they could terminate your employment easily by giving you notice and then reemploy you on the hours they choose.

What do you actually want out of this situation?