Risk of Redundancy 18 weeks pregnant

[mysteriouseye]

Hi Ladies,

I am at risk of being made redundant (found out Monday) and it has absolutely terrified me. I am a facility manager/Receptionist and have just recently come off maternity leave in April this year but am pregnant again (18 weeks). When I returned my maternity covers contract was extended so that she could help out on the sales side of things. I was to believe her contract was extended until November 2015. Because of her contract being fixed term and we are both at risk of being made redundant, we both have the right to apply for the job and be interviewed for this upcoming role that will be made (Admin/Sales Operations) I have no experience in the Sales side but my maternity cover does because she has been working in sales. So I feel quite sad that I will basically have no chance at this interview. Which means I will probably be the one made redundant at 18 weeks. Leaving me in a tricky situation.. If I am the one to be made redundant who is going to hire an 18 week (probably even more weeks by the time this happens) pregnant woman? Also I need to still be with the company by 16th August to qualify for SMP. I am scared this will all happen to quick and I will not end up getting my SMP! I feel quite sad that I have been with the company 4 years and bent over backwards for them yet here I am fighting for my job over my MATERNITY cover who has only been here 1 year.

Help please!!

 

[Geebug x]

If your role is being made redundant and it is a new role completely that you have to both apply for they are within their rights to do it.
However, if they extended your covers FTC to November they need to prove why the work has dried up this early on and not November if thats when they predicted she was needed??
I work in HR, so happy to talk if need be.
Also, they have to offer you suitable redeployment, so if you can prove you can do the admin/sales role they have to give you an interview - although by the sounds of it they have managed their way around that because of the sales experience needed. I think you should go to HR and say you feel like you are being discriminated against because you are pregnant and see their response, ask the question why your cover was kept on until Nov if they are making redundancies now.
xx