Ladies,
I am in need of some desperate help/advice.
I am currently 35 weeks pregnant and have been working for my current company for almost three years. I notified them I was pregnant at 16 weeks and had a very positive reaction.
Fast forwards to today, two days before my maternity leave was to commence, and I was made redundant.
This doesn't feel right, I feel targeted. No one else has been made redundant either. I know the company has been restructuring for some time (years actually) and quite often hand out redundacies but it is usually a few at a time in the same position. However my position is not redundant - they have simply given my role over to another person in the exact same role but in a different territory to manage.
Apart from feeling hurt, I feel that this is a sinister move on their part.
Any advice??!
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Fair Work Australia should be your first call tomorrow.
Yes call fair work and make an appointment. Save everything you have, forward and print all emails because they can sometimes pull them back from their end.
Contact your union
Definately chase this up! Sounds terrible... Just days before you're due to finish up?
They may have seen your leaving as an opportunity to restructure current employee roles. Seeing they've given your role to someone within the company already doing your job. So perhaps they worked out that upping their commitments but paying them more was cheaper than replacing you and holding your job for you 'til you return. Would you feel comfortable questioning the redundancy with your employers? That's what I'd do first up.
This doesn't seem right to me, if they were going to restructure your job and give it to someone else, they should have said long before now. With the timing of it, it clearly appears that they are trying to get out of any obligations they have towards you. Try this website www.fairwork.gov.au/ending-employment/redundancy. Personally I wouldn't want to go back after my maternity leave was up, after what they have done but see what this website suggests.