Contract Advise

biggaz26

Anyone point me in the right direction please.

I work for a distribution company and have to work all Bank Holidays Except Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Years Day.

Whenever we have worked the bank holiday given for boxing day previously we have recieved Double time and a day in Lieu which we can swap for triple time if we like.

This year initially we were told that we could only have double time and a day in Lieu. A complaint was made regarding this (not by me) and we were all then told that we could take the triple time.

Now having worked the bank holiday HR are saying thats not the case and unless it is written into our contracts that we can have triple time. Im asking for a copy of my contract on tuesday when the local HR rep in back in.

My question is this

Do I not now have some sort of assumed contractual right to receive the triple time as I have had it every time I have worked the boxing day bank holiday? (about 5 years now i think)

I'm not overly bothered either way but am I a little !!!!ed off and the way they have gone about it.

That and Im bored so thought I would ask.

Cheers

G

KiKi

You're doing the right thing - getting a copy of your contract. To be honest, I think you're onto a loser unless you have proof that the triple time was offered to you.

I'm not sure that 5 years' of triple time on that one BH will convince HR to change the offer...they may come back with the argument that triple time isn't offered for any other BH.

I appreciate that you're not complaining, but annoyed about how it's happened - great example of poor HR communication! But double time and a day in lieu is pretty good for Boxing Day, esp as it wasn't a BH this year! Not sure you'll get anywhere with this one, unless you have a whole cohort of people who heard the offer and will back you up and will take it up together.

KiKi