Rank: Guest 
|
Posted By Angela Hayden
I have just had a young lady come to my office asking what she should do with regard to a situation whereby she says she feels she is being harrassed by her line manager who is currently on maternity leave, but continues to pop into work.
Does the manager whilst on maternity leave have an immediate "say" on this girls work. Is this young lady within her rights, if she is approached by said manager to ask her what buisiness anything is of hers (whilst she is not at work).
Also, appraisals are due and she also wanted to know if it was within her rights to refuse for the appraisal to be carried out by this manager.
Sorry to be vaugue, but not quite sure of what all the outcome of all this is at the moment, it looks like the department has a grievance or two against this manager and ultimately, don't want to carry on working for her on her return.
We do not have any personnel manager, and if this does go further I will refer them to the ACAS web site for guidance.
Look forwared to any comments anyone has re the above though as I would be interested to know myself.
Many thanks,
Ang.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rank: Guest
|
Posted By Ian Brough
Not sure what exactly you do has a business, but could you stop the manager coming on site has a risk to her's and the baby's health.
Do you have an employee handbook/greievance procedure on site? If you do you must follow these procedures to ensure that the manager cannot take the Company to tribunal.
If you require any more info then you can e-mail me direct (ianbrough@clf.co.uk) and i'll try and help, but really neeed a few more details to establish the exact situation.
Ian
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rank: Guest
|
Posted By Robert.
I would be very careful using the word "harassment". If the individual is on maternaty leave, and thats exacty what it is----not at work, not doing work, and not having the cake and eating it. Surely the line manager is managed, but weakly. Maybe the individual feels threatened at the prospect of changes when she returns to work-----ie not being in control or trying to preserve her job. Maybe there's a personality clash. The individual needs reasurance from another (senior) manager that the system she was working to is still intact and the company looks forward to her return after maternity leave-------unless the position has been engineered out by management so that when she returns to her former job, she can't manage the changes, and may leave!
Bite the bullet and wait. Sometimes it's worth it. Do your job, use the management if you see other ways of doing something more efficient, and if the individual does question you style or methods then refer her to the managers that sanctioned your work.
Good luck.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum.
You cannot reply to topics in this forum.
You cannot delete your posts in this forum.
You cannot edit your posts in this forum.
You cannot create polls in this forum.
You cannot vote in polls in this forum.