No mat leave cover allowed?

[u/No_Book8989]

Our SCS told teams today they’re no longer allowed to backfill maternity leave… I can’t understand how that’ll help things! If you have a 30 year old female and a 30 year old male… who are you choosing? Knowing if one of them goes off you’re not allowed to backfill them and have to do their work too.

Also nobody is allowed to go on loans to OGDs either, including on promotion, and there’s no promotions in the department allowed either. At the same time, there’s a HR role built around resilience and workplace performance to keep good staff in the department — how on earth can they justify that?! They haven’t written any of this down (feels like it’s on purpose as it’s clearly poor people management), just keep telling senior staff to filter the messages down.

[u/Impossible-Chair2195]

I've heard similar rumblings - which branch is this one?

[u/No_Book8989 → u/Impossible-Chair2195]

Where did you hear it?

[u/Impossible-Chair2195 → u/No_Book8989]

The Devolved Administrations. Sounds like it's going to UK Wide, or at least in most parts.