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Libby - Becoming Winnie's Mum's avatar

Thanks for this read! I work in HR (currently on mat leave). Unfortunately I think large employers are quite happy to offer a settlement agreement when the woman resigns claiming constructive dismissal, knowing this is less “hassle” for the employee compared to taking it through to a claim at a tribunal, so they will likely take the offer. Companies seem prepared to take these risks, over being openminded to offering flexibility…

I’m hearing stories of part time requests being declined which is scary - even though a judge would assess whether a company declined such requests fairly & if there was another reasonable workaround they could have managed (taking into account the size of company or nature of the role etc). Workarounds such as a job share or redistributed workload.

Im certainly not feeling hopeful for my career moving forwards now that I’m a mum, with black and white statistics like these.

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Jess's avatar

These stats are why I feel I need to go full throttle when I go back to work in a week… BUT my baby currently has tonsillitis, is teething, has never slept through the night and is currently not even sleeping for more than 10 minutes a at a time. So going back to work and smashing it might result in me quickly losing what’s left of my mind. What am I supposed to do? How do other mums manage???

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