Antenatal appointments

I’m currently 16 weeks with my first baby, so naturally there’s a lot of appointments I have to attend. My issue is that my place of work has told me that the time I need for these I have to take as AL or unpaid- the only exception is scans. This doesn’t seem to right to me at all, I’ve researched it myself and every website says the same regarding this. I was just curious if anyone else has gone through the same thing and how they resolved this! It’s stressing me out because I don’t think it’s right for me to use my annual leave for things that I’m required to go to

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Pregnancy is a protected characteristic so this doesn’t sound quite right. It might be best looking into your company’s policies and ask HR for copies of maternity/pregnancy information. If not then maybe citizens advice? Defo sounds wrong though x

Talk to Pregnant and screwed because pretty sure they will have stuff to help you with this x

Antenatal appointments aren’t mandatory, you choose if you want to go or not so your workplace has no legal obligation to let you have time out to attend so they’re right in saying you need to take it unpaid or as annual leave.

Depends on your work policy, but mine says you can take paid leave for all of these

@Samantha that’s not what the government website says. It states I’m entitled to reasonable paid time off, nothing about using annual leave nor taking time off unpaid.

Try calling ACAS, they might be able to advise x

@Hana I’ve looked into my company’s policy and it says the same thing as the government 😔 I’m going to speak to Citizens advice tomorrow

https://pregnantthenscrewed.com/advice-services/ These guys helped my cousin with something very similar. They are very good and have great legal advice!

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