Advice on hours lost at work...

ohkate89

Basically thursday my boss told me that, another department in my workplace is struggling, and that i would have to be one of the "casualties" i already knew this was coming as the women who has taken my job was offered it a week before i knew i had lost it... anyway, iv got a zero hour contract ( as and when).... but have been doing the same job for nearly 3 years. the same hours, at the same place. Can anyone give me advice, is my boss aloud to take my hours from me to give to someone else ? she has a contract in the other part of the workplace, which i know gives her some rights, but surely hes not aloud to just give someone my job after i have been there so long...? and my job is not the one that is being dissolved. please help! thank you xxx

getmore4less

When is the 3 years ( redundacy/notice is dependant on this)

Have they terminated your contract or just stopped giving you work?

How are you paid for holidays?


If they terminate your contract : ( I THINK)

You should be due a redundancy payment based on the last 12 weeks you were actualy paid(weeks without pay don't count) and two/three years service.

They should also give you minimum 2/3 weeks notice(more if contractual) and I belief this should also be paid based on the avergae of the last 12 weeks paid work.

Any pay for acrrued but not taken/paid holidays.

Now if they have terminated due to redundancy they have what is called bumped you which is legal, but I think there should be a selection process so this may not have been done properly so there may be some angle there.
you will need propper advice for that

If they have just stopped giving you hours then I think that is OK because that is what your contract allows.


If they subsiquently terminate then the above notice and redundancy still applies.


here are the references.(pages around these links give a lot more information.

Notice.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/89

redundancy
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/162

weeks pay.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/224