Hello ladies, I am going off on maternity leave in a few weeks. I am a salesperson and I my basepay plus commission. I’m worried about my larger accounts getting the proper TLC

Also It makes sense that I wouldn’t get the commission for a job I didn’t create because I’m not there but to entirely switch over the customer to someone else I find to be a bit ridiculous?

I don’t work in a commission job but it doesn’t seem fair for someone else get the full commission if you got the sale say 80% there and someone else completed. It would seem more fair for the commission to be split proportionally.

im not too worried about them getting jobs under my customers when I’m gone, But I expect those accounts to still be mine when I get back. As I found out who the contact is, I have history with the contact, I have spent time and effort on these accounts.

Are you in the UK? If so, those accounts will need to be returned to you when you return from maternity leave. If they are not, then your employer would be discriminating against you, as they would have put you at a disadvantage because you went on leave. If they try to use reasoning such as 'any accounts not worked in 6 months will be re allocated and this is the same for everyone' this would still be indirect discrimination as realistically the only people who would be gone longer than 6 months are women on maternity leave.

Would the accounts not be handed over to someone to actively look after in your absence? Every company I’ve worked at has done this.

Different to Amy’s point above - it’s been made clear in my company that ultimately client accounts are owned by the company, not the individual. As such, accounts can be changed if there’s a valid reason so it’s not necessarily a given that we’ll have exactly the same clients as before. It would be clearly discrimination if you came back to zero clients though, so things have to be reasonable. If you’ve worked on them for ages then you’d obviously have a good argument for keeping them!

I would simply speak to your company (boss, or maybe HR if you’d like to make it more formal) about the process and ask to clarify what is happening, as you want to ensure you can hit the ground running when you get back.