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UI am a software engineer working as a remote senior analyst in a company with 8+ years experience. Joined the company in 2022 confirming the job would be a permanent work from home job. I clearly mentioned to them while joining that my husband lives in a place which is not the office location and have business there , so I won’t be able to relocate to the office location and I need PERMANENT wfh. At the time of joining, they confirmed that my request to work permanently from Home is approved and I have mail confirmation from the HR. Fast forward to last year, I went on 6 months maternity leave. Jan 28th is my joining date after maternity leave. Last week when I contacted the HR about my rejoining , they are asking me to come to office in hybrid mode, (3 days a week) . I don’t have any family at the office location . I don’t live there and have no one to take care of my baby. My baby is 5 months old and cannot be taken to office crèche, as she is too small. Only kids above 1 year are allowed there. Gave 2.5 years of my hard-work to the office but still they are not considering giving wfh. So many other people are comfortably working from home in the same office , they are targeting only the people who are coming back from maternity leave.
Talked with manager, he said he won’t be able to help . Hr is telling you have to come to office otherwise resign. I have no other way than resigning as I won’t be able to work from office. Any advice should I move this legally or let go of the job and find another job. -
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UI learnt this concept in one of my classes recently. In such cases, the company wants to downsize and doesn’t want to say severance packages. So they change the policies. In most scenarios there is no documentation of such an agreement that it would be a permanent work from home scenario. So the employees resort to quitting saving the company costs.
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ICheck the mail where HR confirmed permanent WFH, check the wording whether it mentions that it can change later.
If it says it, not much you can do. However, in the off chance it’s not there, forward it to your HR and just say that you will keep working from home.
Whatever they try to make you do afterwards, no matter what they say, they actually want you to resign, they don’t want to fire you. For this, they may make it very difficult for you, but if you can disconnect from the situation emotionally, it won’t matter. If they fire you, they will be vulnerable to a lawsuit and they don’t want that.
Please understand that you are just a resource to them. They want you to come back only because they know you can’t and you will probably resign from the pressure. They simply don’t want to employ new mothers who have a different priority than work.
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UNot a Lawyer. Companies can change policies, and unless your contract was very specific to have such policy changes not affect you, you cannot fall back on this.
If push comes to shove, consider having them fire you and do not resign. If they fire you, then they would need to give you severance.
Also, check local labour laws for any protection to persons returning from maternity leave – if so, this could work in your favour as well.
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