changes in contract

snout71

in a meeting he tabled an offer of voluntary redundancy, then when i accepted he changed it to a compromised agreement with me getting £2,500 instead of £6,500, not a very good deal at all, when i asked him to compromise a little he closed down and said nothing else is acceptable

snout71

ohreally wrote: »

your difficulty is being seen to have accepted them by continuing to work.

i have not agreed to them by continuing to work, i stated that i would not want to work nights because of family over 5 months ago, his letter was 10 weeks ago stating about night racing, i believe i still have 2 weeks to object to the changes.

his letter was also very vague and stated no details which were suppose to follow but never did.

i am yet to work night racing as this has all been very swift and everything has happened over the last 5 days, he only called the meeting with staff 5 days ago, i am due to do my first night shift tomorrow

Googlewhacker

how often will you have to do a night shift?

snout71

it would depend on how the staffing was done for each shop

chances are three nights each week

Googlewhacker

snout71 wrote: »

it would depend on how the staffing was done for each shop

chances are three nights each week

3 out of 5? that is quite high. You need to go get some proper advice pronto!

Emmzi

9:30pm is not "night" shift, it is late shift

Your family being young has no bearing on whether this is a legal change, so I would not mention that at all again.

Have you formally requested details and confirmed in writing that you cannot formally accept or reject until you are aware of the proposed changes in full?

Have you suggested an alternate work pattern that gives him cover and still retains you on similar hours to now?

snout71

we have all requested details for the last 3 months but he doesnt even know himself, he will leave it till the last minute as usual and leave the details to the staff as usual and not take any blame as usual

i have no alternate work patterns ideas but then its not my job to do so

so i assume that i do not have means for breach of contract?

Emmzi

That;'s correct. If you wish to remain in employment I'd ditch "it's not my job" and MAKE it your job to make it work!

KiKi

snout71 wrote: »

we have all requested details for the last 3 months but he doesnt even know himself, he will leave it till the last minute as usual and leave the details to the staff as usual and not take any blame as usual

i have no alternate work patterns ideas but then its not my job to do so

so i assume that i do not have means for breach of contract?

As I said in my previous post, my personal opinion is that it's unlikely. But you'd need to speak to an employment solicitor to give you a view of the reality based on a lot more detail and their knowledge of how these things play out.

KiKi

Hammyman

snout71 wrote: »

i have not agreed to them by continuing to work,

Actually, you have. You may have kicked up a fuss but you're still working.

And as others have said, a 9.30pm finish is not a night shift but a twilight one. I've done night shifts and I got home at 4-6am.