I am 20 weeks pregnant on Friday. I am a high risk pregnancy (due to previous losses and now recent result of group b strep which I know is nothing to worry about now it's been found) I work in a well known supermarket and since I've been pregnant the role I was in has been changed to caretaker as it's only really a role I can do for so much longer now I'm getting bigger ect and bending down and stretching to clean shelves is proving difficult. So in January I'll have to go off of that duty and just do close shifts till maternity leave. Which is 11pm finishes.
To the point I'm making, I've been off a lot at the start because of sickness, and now I've suffered with leg pain and back pain so I've been off for 2 days and my doctor has wrote me a note for amended hours and not to be on my feet for more than 4 hours. So for example I was standing in self service checkouts for 5+ hours sometimes without a toilet break unless I really stressed I needed to go. The place is so short staff and not trained probably since everyone has been leaving. I work 5 days a week with 2 days off which are normally a Tuesday and a Sunday. All 6am starts and Christmas week she has changed it to 5am. My doctor wrote in the note no more than 8 hour shifts. Which can easily be fitted in to get my 30 hour a week contract. Which from the start I've said to her I would rather just do my contract and not loads of overtime on top as I was doing 45 hour weeks.
My boss didn't understand this at all when I gave her the note yesterday. She said "so you'll work 8 hours with no break so you're just doing a 8 hour shift" "and I'll put you in 8 hours every shift" which isn't the case because then it would be 40 hours a week if she wants me in 5 days a week. So I was confused at what she didn't understand about that and about the not standing for more than 4 hours. So she said "so you can't stand at all" yes i can stand but not for the silly times they've been expecting me to. She then said I owe them hours for being off sick and it has 9 hours on my banked hours, but she's said she would say it was 20 hours if she has to guess. But the screen for payroll said 9 hours, so her guess is silly when the number is there on screen. She's then said I'll get less maternity pay if I work my contracted hours, but how does that work out since I'll be earning more than £120 with my contract hours. Even if I worked 10 hours less, I'd still be earning more than £120 a week. Which I presumed that's how maternity is paid?
She honestly doesn't have a clue and I feel like I'm being sold down the river because of her lack of knowledge. Which we've come to heads about before when she wanted me to take my scan appointments and consultant appointments as holiday days. To end the conversation she said why don't I go on maternity leave early and I really don't know how I keep my cool with her🙄