Treated unfairly during pregnancy or parental leave?
Pregnancy and parental leave are strongly protected in UK employment law. If your employer has treated you differently because of pregnancy, maternity, or taking parental leave, you may have options.
What this usually looks like
Made redundant during maternity leave
Your role was removed while you were on maternity leave, or you returned to find your job had changed significantly.
Denied flexible working on return
You requested flexible working after parental leave and your employer refused without proper consideration.
Treated differently during pregnancy
Since announcing your pregnancy, you've experienced changes to your role, exclusion from opportunities, or negative treatment.
Pressured not to take full leave
Your employer has discouraged you from taking your full maternity, paternity, or shared parental leave entitlement.
Key things to understand
Pregnancy is automatically protected
Treating someone unfavourably because of pregnancy or maternity leave is discrimination - no need to compare yourself to a colleague.
Special redundancy rules during leave
If your role is genuinely redundant during maternity leave, your employer must offer you a suitable alternative vacancy if one exists - ahead of other employees.
Your job should be there when you return
After ordinary maternity leave, you have the right to return to the same job. After additional maternity leave, the same job or a suitable alternative.
Flexible working requests have a process
You can make a statutory flexible working request. Your employer must deal with it reasonably and give a decision within a set timeframe.
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