Christmas working hours

loulou123

I work in a care home and my usual days are tuesday to friday so i'll be working xmas eve, xmas day, new years eve and new years day. As these all fall on my normal days.

I actually dont mind this and understand the need for this completely, but maybe if you have a real problem with it - such as travelling etc then speak to your manager and see if anything can be done.

Prettygreeneys_2

I do not think the depot staff work, as we do not have a delivery on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Years Day the shelves are almost empty; to be truthful people tend to go a bit mad in the run up to Christmas.
I understand that I am fortunate to have a job and also know that many people have to work longer hours over the holidays but as I can not drive it will prove to be quite a problem.
I can not work a double shift as it is my job to face up ( pull things forward and make sure all the labels are facing the right way round) in store for the final 3 hours of opening but thanks for the suggestion.

el_gringo_3

Actually, there is a law that states supermarket employees have the right to have Xmas day off (it applies to all stores above a certain size), but unless I misunderstand its not actually Xmas day thats concerned here is it?

olly300

Short answer is yes.

Long explanation is that your normal working days are Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. If you had religious convictions you could argue that Thursdays (Christmas Eve & New Years Eve) plus Sunday were special days due to the time of year. However you would have had to declare that you were a Christian on your equal opportunities form AND booked those days of well in advance of the rota being written up i.e. October. There is no statutory reason you can take these days off otherwise.

Oldernotwiser

olly300 wrote: »

Short answer is yes.

Long explanation is that your normal working days are Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. If you had religious convictions you could argue that Thursdays (Christmas Eve & New Years Eve) plus Sunday were special days due to the time of year. However you would have had to declare that you were a Christian on your equal opportunities form AND booked those days of well in advance of the rota being written up i.e. October. There is no statutory reason you can take these days off otherwise.

Why should New Year's Eve (or even Christmas Eve, come to think of it) have any religious meaning for a Christian?

Christmas Day itself would be different.

KeepYourChinUp_2

Prettygreeneys_2 wrote: »

I do not think the depot staff work, as we do not have a delivery on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Years Day the shelves are almost empty; to be truthful people tend to go a bit mad in the run up to Christmas.
I understand that I am fortunate to have a job and also know that many people have to work longer hours over the holidays but as I can not drive it will prove to be quite a problem.
I can not work a double shift as it is my job to face up ( pull things forward and make sure all the labels are facing the right way round) in store for the final 3 hours of opening but thanks for the suggestion.

I work in a depot and I assure you that the depot is shut only two days a year , xmas day and easter sunday. All other days are 24/7. The delivery your store gets tomorrow was picked today. It might be that it is different with your company if it is one of the smaller supermarkets. Some of the people here are working everything except xmas day. I'm fortunate that i have boxing day off but I had to kick up a stink about it. Unfortunately you can only

1. Do the shifts
2. Get a swop with someone maybe?
3. Quit

Savvy_Sue

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Why should New Year's Eve (or even Christmas Eve, come to think of it) have any religious meaning for a Christian?

Even as a Scot I don't think you could claim a religious significance for New Year's Eve, so I'm equally

OFTBC

Prettygreeneys_2 wrote: »

I do not think the depot staff work, as we do not have a delivery on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Years Day the shelves are almost empty; to be truthful people tend to go a bit mad in the run up to Christmas.
I understand that I am fortunate to have a job and also know that many people have to work longer hours over the holidays but as I can not drive it will prove to be quite a problem.
I can not work a double shift as it is my job to face up ( pull things forward and make sure all the labels are facing the right way round) in store for the final 3 hours of opening but thanks for the suggestion.

I have worked in the supply chain for the last 4 years, I don't know what supermarket you work for but il describe our deliveries to the store we serve.

The depot will close for Xmas Eve and Xmas day, Spare a thought as if these are not your normal days off you would have to work your rest days to make up for it. Last year I was expected to work 11 days straight just to have Xmas eve and day and new years eve off, Luckily my child care arrangements meant I couldn't do so. For others tho they were not so lucky.

The final deliveries prior to Xmas go out on Xmas Eve morning, The night shift will then finish at 6am on that morning, Our supermarket isn't open on boxing days, The depot will then close until boxing day morning where the day shift have to start at 6am! The stores reopen on the 27th and they will receive a delivery that morning prior to opening.

For new years near enough the same as Xmas but the depot is only shut for one day and that's new years eve, The day shift have to be in at 6am new years day whilst the night shift return later in the evening, The stores will receive their deliveries on the morning on Jan 2nd.

When I worked as a shop assistant at Farmfoods I remember working late into Xmas eve as we had a delivery then instead of early on Boxing day morning.