Do I tell employer I’m pregnant?

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I’m 6 weeks in and already throwing up, lovely! It’s the public sector, huge department. We may be encouraged to slowly return to the office part time next month with exceptions for the clinically vulnerable and pregnant women.

It’s so much easier if I could continue to WFH so I don’t have to commute and I can rush to the loo with nobody noticing! I can do all my work at home.

Oh and I’m new-ish to this place of work, joined less than 6 months ago.

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Yes, inform them so you can both do the risk assessment and plan how to safely manage. In covid times pg is a high risk category

Yes absolutely. If you need time off sick with pregnancy related sickness it has to be recorded differently (in a way that will not discriminate against you). Also from a health and safety perspective it would be a good idea.

You should tell them so they can do the appropriate risk assessment.

Hopefully not joined in this thread too late. Also having similar concerns. 6 weeks pregnant and dealing with morning sickness - not to the point of needing time off but a lot less productive and needing to leave on time due to illness and tiredness (job often expects me to work late).

I am back in the office and at the mo it's fine as not many people in (I'm in due to works on house) but in September we are going up to bringing a lot of people back.

Are you not high risk until 28 weeks plus rather than pregnant straight away? Also considering whether a risk assessment needs to be thought of for me. Whilst I'm happy to come into the office I want people to be cautious around me.