Employment contract?

SarEl

RossDave10 wrote: »

Jerk? We are in the UK here, no USA..

If I was to go into my firms HR and ask for a contract increase, and say what I believe to be true, I don't see how this would lead to me losing my job?

You seem to have a very uprated attitude, it seems as though you don't know very much about this subject, but are instead, repeating what others are saying..

Since my points were made before the others were, that would be difficult. The only person here who doesn't know much about the subject is you. However, I see that you have some problems understanding the written word - I said that if you go out laying demands that your employer increase your contractual hours based on incorrect information then there may well be a swift response to those demands which is not to your liking. Your overtime is not contractual, so it can disappear... and if you put a foot wrong you could be on a disciplinary or dismissed. That is what I said. And by the way, "jerk" is perfectly acceptable in the English language - it refers to a foolish, rude, or contemptible person.

no-oneknowsme

RossDave10 wrote: »

You seem to have a very uprated attitude, it seems as though you don't know very much about this subject, but are instead, repeating what others are saying..

Rossdave10 - If you take advice from anyone on this thread I can assure you that the best and most accurate advice would be from SarEL or lazydaisy.

THEY are the ones who have offered you good advice, however it seems to me that you are not convinced by what they are telling you !

Having a go at them and being rude and arrogant isnt going to change the answer to your query . You dont like what they are telling you (even though its correct?) then feel free to make an appointment with an employment law solicitor in your local area and let them charge you some stupid sum of money (:rotfl:sorry SarEL and Daisy - no offence meant:o) to tell you exactly what the two posters have spent the day trying to do !

If you cant accept free advice from a solicitor/barrister then you dont need the extra money from your employer because you obviously have too much money already !

SarEl

no-oneknowsme wrote: »

feel free to make an appointment with an employment law solicitor in your local area and let them charge you some stupid sum of money (:rotfl:sorry SarEL and Daisy - no offence meant:o) to tell you exactly what the two posters have spent the day trying to do !

Utterly no offence taken. Since it is relatively easy to confirm what both I and LazyDaisy have been sayiing through a Google search it would be a "stupid amount of money" if paying a lawyer for it.

patman99

RossDave10, why would anyone claim to be something they are not?, they would only end-up making themselves look stupid.

As for your dilema, it used to be common practice for supermarkets to employ till staff on 8 hour contracts (either 2 days at 4 hours ea., or 4 days at 2 hours ea.), however, the till staff would sign-up to extra hours at o/t rate (time + 1/3 for all hours above those contracted), so would end-up working 39 hour weeks anyway and pick-up 31 hours pay at o/t rates, thus getting the equivalent of an extra 10 hours pay.

As this discriminated against the f/t employees, they changed the rules to t+1/3 once worked hours exceeded 39 in total.

Makes me glad supermarkets pay so low that I could never keep the roof above my head working in them.