travelling for work while pregnant...advice?

StarBright01

Hi all, just looking for some opinions on this! Although I'm not expected to travel out of the country for work as I know a lot of people are, at what stage can you tell your boss you arent comfortable with being too far from the hospital?

Every two or three weeks I have to do a 3 hour drive for meetings and I'm now 26 weeks which is fine but I know closer to the time I wont want to be too far from my hospital.

Has anybody else had similar experiences with this?

livedadream

depends on you really. you dont have to tell your boss unless if effects your health and safety at work (some people leave it till as late as 5 months)

its all up to you and when you feel comfortable travelling.

your protected legislation wise in regards to travelling as soon as you are pregnant so dont worry about that side of it.

Gatica

your employer is obliged to take your health and safety during pregnancy into account and accommodate you as far as it's reasonable. Otherwise you can take H&S leave and they'll have to pay for some of that. I'm sure your employer rather pay you to work and not travel, than pay you to stay at home.
If you think you start finding travel difficult you should definitely discuss this with your boss. We have a work assessment conducted by a nurse at work upon pregnancy notification. It's not work competence, it's of your safety at work, work area, work hours, stress and travel requirements. It's a big company though, so it might not be as regimented in smaller places.

https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/Publications_Forms/Guide_to_Maternity_Protection_Acts.pdf

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/social_welfare_payments_to_families_and_children/health_safety_benefit.html

StarBright01

Thanks guys for taking the time to reply much appreciated