In article <[log in to unmask]>, PTBromley <[log in to unmask]>
writes
>This year, we set 2 female locums on to do surgeries on a semi-permanent basis
>- 1 doing 1 day per week, and the other 1/2 day - i.e. 2 sessions and 1
>session.
For how long have they been in post? This is relevant in that though you
may have no contract, one may be assumed if they have been doing the
same thing for long enough.
>No contracts have been offered to them, and the arrangements were a
>verbal understanding.
Whoops!
>One is now pregnant (nothing to do with us at the
>practice I hasten to add!!)
> where do we stand in employment law?? Are they
>entitled now or in the future to holiday/sicknes/maternity leave.
officially no but if they decide to be stroppy you are on a sticky
wicket - what were they led to believe when you took them on?
> Can we
>suggest to the pregnant one that we need to look for someone else.
you could try but pregnant women are well known to be irrational! (I'm
female so I'm allowed to say this!)
> do we have
>any obligations to them as we would any other employee??
Yes, fraid so!
KT
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Katie Law
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