Is this right?

[girlygirl2]

Ok as you all know most probably, I'm 7 weeks pregnant.
My boss asked me today when I was going on mat leave!
Then proceeded to say, when I said I'd be coming back, "Come on Kate, we both know you cant afford 2 sets of childcare!"

Huh??????

What is he trying to immply? Except for the fact, I'm on a rubbish wage!!! lol

How would you take it?

x

[natalie_1982]

He doesn't have a right to ask that for starters. I know with my place I don't have to tell them if I am returning until 4 weeks before i decide to (or not to!).

I'd tell him to bog off, and that you weren't going to pay for childcare anyway but were going to bring baby into work with you everyday.

[girlygirl2]

Lol that would go down well.

I think he is still annoyed I killed all his plants recently! REVENGE IS SWEET!

[Psychick]

Be very careful, it sounds like he is trying to trick you into admitting that youre not planning on going back to work after, in which case I think you lose out on maternity pay. I dont know whether you are going back after or not, but dont let him trick you into saying that. You do not need to be telling your boos when you intend on starting your maternity leave until you are in your 2nd trimester anyway so why he is asking so soon just adds to my suspicsion of what he is up to.
Make sure you know all your maternity leave/pay entitlements.

[girlygirl2]

OMG! What a tw@T!

[Cwpsi]

Helow,

The only reason you're boss needs to know that you're preggie now is because of health and safety, to look after you. When you receive you're MATB from you're midwife around 25wks you officialy let you're place of work know that you are preggie. Make sure that you're boss takes time to sit with you go through a risk assessment for pregnant women, what you can do and now cannot do eg. heavy lifting and stretching.

Only with the MATB do you let you're boss know when you are thinking of starting maternity leave and thinking of coming back. But if you want more time off, all you need to do is give him 28 days notice that you intent to take more off, and 28 days before you are due to go back you also have to write a letter to give you're date of resuming work. You also have the right to ask for part time hours.

[nat_84]

Dont worry girlygirl - my boss told me to put my baby up for adoption!!!

Bloody men...!

However long you take off work is up to you and it obviously depends on when you feel ready to return, which you may not know until the baby is born and settled. I said to my work "6 months, if i want to come back earlier or later i'll give them one months notice....". x

[Goodsoulette]

If he carries on with those sorts of comments it is discrimnation. If you are on a rubbish wage tax credits cover most of the childcare. Tell him to shut his big fat pie hole. Every time he asks you about it in the near future ask him when hes going to carry out a risk assessment.

[Goodsoulette]

You must notify your employer of your intention to take Ordinary Maternity Leave by the end of the fifteenth week before your child is due.

Your notice must state:

* That you are pregnant;
* The expected week of childbirth;
* The date that you intend your Ordinary Maternity Leave to start on.

Once you have given notice of the date that you intend the leave to begin on, you can subsequently change your mind and vary the date. In this case you must notify your employer of the variation at least 28 days before the new date begins, or if this is not reasonably practicable, as soon as is reasonably practicable.

You do not have to give your employer any special notice that you wish to take Additional Maternity Leave. If you are entitled to Additional Maternity Leave, your employer should assume that you are going to take it. If you wish to return to work earlier or at the end of your ordinary maternity leave, you should give your employer 8 weeks? notice before returning to work.

[ojread2]

"Be very careful, it sounds like he is trying to trick you into admitting that youre not planning on going back to work after, in which case I think you lose out on maternity pay."

This is not true. Regardless of whether you go back you will still get the 9 months paid mat pay if you have been employed by the same employer without a break for at least 26 weeks into the 15th week before the week your baby is due. If that employer refuses to pay then he paves the way for a legal suit which the employee will definitely win