work dramas again
a friend of mine in work has had her days changed from mon,tues and wed to mon, wed and fri with out even being consulted about it. so got into a panic about my days and when i asked my head of dept she told mine have changed from mon, tues, wed to mon, tues, thurs. no one even told me about this or even warned me. been to see the head who was very unsympathetic as usual, think he is still holding a grudge that i gave birth early, as i obviously did it to wind him up!
have no idea how we are going to manage if i cant get the days changed back. as we rely on family to look after dd it is a nightmare as they cannot just simply swap days where they work. dh has rung around a few of the local nurseries but they are all booked up, one would have a space but not until january so not much good for september.
still waiting for the union to ring me back as i know they can change my days but they cant without consultation. so considering i only found out today once the timetables were sent out it is safe to say that they did not consult with me or even give me some warning that it would happen.
so stressed just dont know what to do
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I don't know what to say. That's an awful thing for them to do to you at this late stage. One of my staff has had her days changed from Mon, Tues, Thurs to Tues, Thurs, Fri because of 6th form grouping but she doesn't have child care issues so didn't mind. Plus she was consulted. My other PT member of staff has childcare and they have bent over backwards to give her the hours she wants.
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Are there any local childminders that will take her? They are also slightly cheaper than most nurseries. I know it's not ideal though.
I hope you manage to sort something out. The other option is to put up two fingers and hand in your resignation but then you would need to find another school which will do the days you want - not easy.
H xx
PS - However it's probably your fault for daring to have DD early. How selfish are you?
they did say that if they cant give me the same same days then as i am contracted to work 60% and am paid 60% i would just do 2 days (so in theory would work 2 days but get paid for 3).
i emailed the head first thing but he has not replied. the union rang the head on my behave this afternoon but he was not in so has left a message for the headto ring him back urgently.
they have done the same to 2 other people too. when i spoke to one of my friends that has been affected she told me that hse was talking to my head of dept who told her that the head went to here weeka ago asking if i wanted to change my days in september, she told him she didnt know but didnt bother to tell me. if i had known this then i could have gone to him and got this sorted weeks ago. i am so angry after everything i have done for her over the years, from setting work when she is ill as she doesnt bother to do this herself, running the dept for 2 periods of around 3 months each while she was off with depression to sorting out all the things that she doesnt do while she stays at home supposedly 'ill' knowing that all the stuff she is behind on i will get done then she can come back to nothing to do.
sorry that turned into a rant.
See whatthe union says and you can do about keeping the complaint going even if you do change days as if/when you have to incur additional costs due to the enforced changes then you would possibly be able to claim the additional costs back because you haven't been able to use the arrangements you had in place previously (and he hasn't followed the correct procedures).