I've recently found out that I'm being made redundant. Its all been done 'properly' and there is no prospect of another job within the company. The problem is that I'm 3 months pregnant.
Like everyone else, I have a big mortgage and worried that the redundancy payment that they are offering may not see me through the next year that I would need it to, if I am not lucky enough to find another job. There is also the issue after that, of finding another job with a six month old baby. My job is fairly specialist and although I'm looking, it can take time to find something, by which time, my pregancy maybe obvious.
I realise that I am not entitled to anything more than the statutary redudancy payment, but I am a long standing employee, and this could not have come at a worse time.
The consulatation meetings that I have had have been held by an unsympathetic director & HR representative. Feeling weepy as I do, I dont feel that I have been able to explain what I want, as forcefully as I should and that I will end up with very little.
Can anyone tell me if I reasonably ask them for more money, and on what terms or anything that would make my situation easier? I cant think what to do except panic..