help ! reduced hours offered in place of wkg from home

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posted earlier in week on this one.
have spd, which is obv made worse by commuting to london 4 days/wk. made offer to boss of doing 2 days in office and 2 days at home...instead of being signed off altogether.
she has come back and said she will offer reduced hours, 2 days a week. and correspondig pay.
i dont know if this will mean that i will only then get 2/days wk pay when i am on mat leave (due to start that 5 march)
also thinking i should just tell her where to get off and get signed off altogether even though this is something i would not normally consider.
she only wants me to carry on working so i can train someone up to do my job while i am off.
any thoughts/advice.......?
DH also says i should tell her where to sticke her two days.
it would also make us worse off financially whilst i am doing the 2 day wk

Phrases like 'tell her where to get off' and 'tell her where to stick her two days' seem a bit unnecessary to me tbh.

Your GP has given advice that you should be signed off altogether.

You have said to your boss you would prefer to keep working and have suggested working at home 2 of your 4 days a week.

Your boss has very sensibly decided that as medical advice is that you should be signed off sick completely, it would not be a good idea to allow you to keep working the hours you are doing.

She has given you the option of reducing your hours if you want to keep on working.

There is nothing wrong with her having a personal preference for you to keep working for a while. It would obviously make her life easier if you do, and there's nothing wrong with that. The important thing is she is not trying to make you work if you shouldn't be doing so. She is happy for you to be signed off in accordance with medical advice, and is offering this two day option for you to either take up or not, depending on what you want to do. You don't need to tell her where to 'stick it', you just need to decide what you want to do and let her know.

As I said in my post on the other thread, if your GP thinks he ought to sign you off sick altogether, I think you should allow him to do so, for your own benefit. Your health is the most important thing at the moment.

In terms of maternity pay if you do choose to reduce your hours and stay at work, statutory maternity pay is calculated based on average earnings during weeks 17-25 of pregnancy, so if you are earning a full salary during those weeks, your SMP will reflect that.

If you get more than SMP, you will need to check with your employer how that would work, and ask if any extra maternity pay could be based on your normal salary rather than the reduced one.

thanks for advice. i know the language i used is not ideal but if you knew anything of the issues i have had with this boss of mine you wouuld see where i am coming from.
i dont think she appreciates taht i will be financially a lot worse off if i were to do this.
whatever suggestion i had proposed would most likely been rejected out of hand anyway as this is just the way she operated.
clearly i wont actually 'tell her where to stick it' i dont think anyone would actually do that, just a turn of phrase which i am sure you realise.

Hi, I think it's worth checking that any company pay you are entitled to would not go down if you worked 2 days per week.

I also had issues getting my manager to compromise on working from home, but then I found him suspiciously likely to disagree with most things anyone suggested generally. I know it's really tempting to feel annoyed about it when you are offering a compromise and it makes you feel you aren't trusted to do the work from home etc.

However I think you're probably worrying too much about how the company will cope without you being there which isn't your problem. Personally I think I'd get signed off/start my maternity leave earlier if I had a health issue, and I wouldn't worry about offering a compromise.