I have been a carer since I was a child and about 2 and a half years ago I started getting carers allowance. I also started work 3years ago and have never had a problem like this before...
I work one day a week and I had an agreement with my manager that because I'm a carer I didn't have to go to staff trainings and meetings as they are on a Sunday evening and I have both my disabled sister and my special needs brother that need help and I just can't make them. Anyway, a few days before Christmas he left and we got a new manager. I have explained to the new manager and the whole management team why I can't attend these meetings.
Today I had one of the deputy store managers tell me that the whole management team have had a meeting and decided that I have to go to them and if I decide not to go then I get a disaplinary and absence put on my record. I explained to them again about all the caring I have to do and that my mum can't do three children by herself, 2 of which have special needs and that I can't leave her to do it. But they still refuse to understand my situation.
I am 22 years old and have already been made to feel like I'm doing the wrong thing for being a registered carer by people I know, it really upsets me that I'm now starting to be treated differently at work.
PLEASE! Could you help me? I don't know what to do
I work one day a week and I had an agreement with my manager that because I'm a carer I didn't have to go to staff trainings and meetings as they are on a Sunday evening and I have both my disabled sister and my special needs brother that need help and I just can't make them. Anyway, a few days before Christmas he left and we got a new manager. I have explained to the new manager and the whole management team why I can't attend these meetings.
Today I had one of the deputy store managers tell me that the whole management team have had a meeting and decided that I have to go to them and if I decide not to go then I get a disaplinary and absence put on my record. I explained to them again about all the caring I have to do and that my mum can't do three children by herself, 2 of which have special needs and that I can't leave her to do it. But they still refuse to understand my situation.
I am 22 years old and have already been made to feel like I'm doing the wrong thing for being a registered carer by people I know, it really upsets me that I'm now starting to be treated differently at work.
PLEASE! Could you help me? I don't know what to do