Just looking for peoples general opinion and also if they know any legalities about it.
This is in Australia so please only pass comment on the legalities if you know the Australian rules.
I have a workmate that had a child in April 2017. She returned to work in March 2018. Our shifts are on a rotating 7 day roster mostly day shifts but occasional evening shifts (2-3 in 4 weeks)
Her maternity leave replacement did her fair share of eve shifts ( 2:30-11pm)
Since she returned to work , she has requested not to do eve shifts as she is still breast feeding her child once a day at 6:30pm.
This means myself and my colleagues are covering eve shifts she would normally be rostered to do.
3 months ago this same colleague went on an overseas holiday for 10 days and left her child with her in laws at home . So obviously the child wasn’t breast fed for that duration.
She claims her child was distressed at not being breast fed during that time and now needs to continue to do so? So still can’t work the eve shift?
She was more than happy to go on an overseas holiday and not breast feed her child for that duration , yet claims she can’t do 2 nights a month of eve shifts at work.
Thoughts please?
This is in Australia so please only pass comment on the legalities if you know the Australian rules.
I have a workmate that had a child in April 2017. She returned to work in March 2018. Our shifts are on a rotating 7 day roster mostly day shifts but occasional evening shifts (2-3 in 4 weeks)
Her maternity leave replacement did her fair share of eve shifts ( 2:30-11pm)
Since she returned to work , she has requested not to do eve shifts as she is still breast feeding her child once a day at 6:30pm.
This means myself and my colleagues are covering eve shifts she would normally be rostered to do.
3 months ago this same colleague went on an overseas holiday for 10 days and left her child with her in laws at home . So obviously the child wasn’t breast fed for that duration.
She claims her child was distressed at not being breast fed during that time and now needs to continue to do so? So still can’t work the eve shift?
She was more than happy to go on an overseas holiday and not breast feed her child for that duration , yet claims she can’t do 2 nights a month of eve shifts at work.
Thoughts please?
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