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Maternity Leave - return to work meeting

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  • 12-02-2017 11:20am
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    cleanslate
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭


    Hello all, is there a standard time to have a meeting with your boss about your return to work when maternity leave finishes?

    I want to ask them for a 3 day week instead of a 5 day week.

    I am still on the standard 26 weeks leave and am taking the additional 16 weeks and they are fine with that.

    However they refused to meet with a colleague until her maternity leave was finished and she was on annual leave which was just a week or so before she came back. Are they allowed to do this?

    I need to book my baby girl into a creche now before spaces fill up so I need to ask for a meeting with them now to ask about a short week? Can I do this?

    So my question is really can I meet with them while on standard maternity leave and while I still have the additional leave to go too.

    Thanks in advance


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    margo321
    Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭margo321


    You need to notify your employer in writing i think one month before the end of your maternity leave, before the unpaid leave starts.


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    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    my employer refused a meeting too so i just sent an email saying i was coming back on a 4 week and left it at that.

    they never got back to me. the day i started back, i just went to old desk someone was sitting there so i had to get IT to move them and had to wait a few days to be told what my new job/team was officially.


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    cleanslate
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭cleanslate


    Wow that's mad, did they just accept the 4 day week?

    I am going to email this week and if they say no, will just have to say it in email and say that I would rather have said it face to face.

    Just have to get the creche sorted and can't miss her getting a place.


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