I am currently on maternity leave and plan to return to work around Feb, I work for a small business with about 5 staff including the owner. I am the first woman to get pregnant since she has owned the business (27 years) and to say she is clueless about the law would be an understatement. Before I left I said I MIGHT want p/t when I return and she looked horrified. I am trying to decide what I want to do and know I need to contact her to find out what the options are but am not sure how to put it to her, when I asked her what my rate of pay would be before I left she replied I would probably treat you as a locum . I can not plan anything until I know what my pay would be as I need to work out childcare costs, so How do I approach it ?
I need to know,
Pay-how much and how my bonus would work if p/t,
Chances of getting p/t ?
But I don't want to end up saying I want P/T and her not accepting then having to leave before I planned to start as I can't afford to loose SMP (if that makes sense?)
How to I put it to her that p/t would be workable ? at the moment I am the only person doing my job but there is a trainee who is pretty competent and I think he could cope on the two quieter days on his own, she is always concerned about profit so if I work on the busy days only she would reduce costs but still have the staff when needed, is this likely to be a good suggestion ?
There are loads more things I need to think of but any help would be appreciated.
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Requesting p/t in a small business
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curlyclaz13 · 17/09/2013 15:29
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