I'd appreciate your honest perception of my situation - I currently work as an on-site HR Advisor.
The HR function of my company (I work for a large global service organisation) has undergone a number of 'transformation' exercises throughout 2010, leading to my onsite HR Manager being made redundant in February 2010.
I commenced maternity leave in April 2010 and on 6th August 2010 I was called to a meeting to be informed that, due to the organisation changing to Regional HR Businss Partners, I was confirmed at risk of redundancy. Apparantly whilst I had been on maternity leave there had been an HR conference (which I was not aware of) where this had first been discussed and decided upon.
I returned to work on 9th August to find that, during my maternity leave, a vast amount of information had been sent to others affected by the change to provide them with background information on the business reason for the change, job profiles for the new roles, competency levels for the new roles, test papers to help them prepare for the assessments etc etc etc. I had not received any of this.
I requested this information on my return and was sent just 2 of the documents - my colleagues rallied round to send me everything else I had missed.
I'm currently in the consultation period (but have had no further meetings) and due to attend an assessment centre on 3rd September. At my consultation meeting I was informed that this assessment centre was to, in effect, 'score' those of us in the pool and determine who would be offered a role going forwards.
I was also 'missed' off of the invitations to the assessment centre, and an update email was sent round yesterday to those in the consultation advising them of the schedule of next meetings and once again I was not included in this email - when I brought this to the attention of my line manager I was informed it was an 'oversight'.
To be fair, although I would have expected to have this information sent to me whilst I was on leave (my personal email address was given to my HR Director who also had my address / phone details), I'm more aggrieved about the fact that it wasn't even sent to my work address for me to pick up on my return and that even since I returned I am still being missed from the communications.
To make things a bit more complicated (or maybe easier??) our maternity policy extends the protection given to those at risk of redundancy whilst on maternity leave to our employees who are pregnant. I've informed my manager, and director, in writing that I am pregnant again (I know, a 19 week old baby and am 9 weeks pregnant - I didn't waste much time!) and have been told that this 'probably' won't apply to me until they have my MatB1 (the policy does not state this anywhere and if the senior HR practitioners don't know they answer to this who will?)
I'd really like your perception on where you think I stand - part of me wonders if I am being over-sensitive to the fact I appear to be deliberately excluded.
Thanks in advance, Claire
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