When to tell boss I am pregnant

[Janch13]

Ok, trying to give context without being totally outing.

I have been with current employer for 12 months and almost 12 weeks pregnant. I predominantly work from home (in UK) but travel 1-2 days within Europe every month or so. My Head office and Boss are based in Europe.

My role has very recently been changed, which was originally positioned to me as a promotion but since actually appears to be more of a rejig of responsibilities within the team as 2 colleagues were recently made redundant and the rest of the department need to absorb their roles. As such, I have been given extra responsibilities but have forfeited some of my previous duties to other colleagues within the team. I did ask my boss if there was still a potential pay rise and he said this would be reviewed in April but my new responsibilities start now.

So, I am almost 12 weeks pregnant and planned to inform boss of this next week as I am seeing them in person. Still feels quite early to tell them this news as we have not yet told any family or friends, but I would prefer to give this news to my boss in personal rather than over a Teams meeting and this is the next time I will be seeing them in person.

However, as my new responsibilities are only just commencing (I am still yet to be introduced to stakeholders/teams I will be working closely with), I am concerned that based on my news he might rethink the responsibilities he has given me (ie he might think ‘what’s the point of introducing Janch when she will be off for a year in 6 months time’) this will leave me as a bit of a spare part in the department and put me of risk of not having a role (of course this would be discrimination but I am just trying to preempt how my boss will think about team structure etc based on this change)

So, should I hold off on telling them until I am established into my ‘new role’ (not really new but changed)? or go ahead and tell them in person next week before I have properly started working in my new remit)”?

Thanks for any advice.

FYI I am 35 and already have a young child so my pregnancy shouldn’t be a huge shock to my employer, I have not hidden the fact that I am a mother and likely to expand my family - not that this has any relevance to how boss should react to the info, but you know.

I told my employer after I’d had the 12 week scan.
your employer cannot discriminate on basis of pregnancy.

12 weeks is a perfectly normal time to tell people who aren’t close family and friends.
I told my closes work colleagues and manager at 6 weeks as I was feeling sick, and also needed a risk assessment.

Tell them asap, because you will need risk assessment.

Yes, I told manager after 12 week scan - that's when you know the pregnancy is likely to continue and not long before you're likely to show.

Have an email prepared, timed and dated, to your boss, and copied to your personal email address. And ensure you have family legal insurance before you do.

Tell your boss in person, but then send the confirming email immediately.

It avoids there being any chance of them firing you and then claiming they didn't know you were pregnant. Just in case !

It happens more often than you imagine and while they 'can't do that' as a previous poster said, unfortunately a few do, and there is no legal aid to defend yourself if they do.

Definitely do it asap, you'll need a risk assessment for your new role. I doubt they'd dare risk discrimination by pulling you away from the new role

I didn't tell my employee until after my twenty weeks scan on both occasions. Google what the legal requirement is I'm sure it's something like 15 weeks before you are due.