no contract

Bossyboots

needaspirin wrote:

You must be well favoured then to get away with it.

No, I just point out that in 13 odd years, I have always taken holiday in December, including, but not exclusively, the Christmas to New Year period and thus I do not consider it part of my implied employment terms that I am not allowed to do so.

needaspirin

How do your colleagues react to the seemingly preferential treatment that you get? I think I would be a little miffed myself.

Bossyboots

needaspirin wrote:

How do your colleagues react to the seemingly preferential treatment that you get? I think I would be a little miffed myself.

I don't get preferential treatment, none of the other staff (in our office anyway) have written contracts either and by following (they never lead:rolleyes: ) my example, they have all had pre- Christmas time off and by applying some pressure and implied contract terms our office now closes between Christmas and New Year (it would take forever to detail the whole sequence of events leading up to this but everyone our end is happy with how it works out now). I will admit though that before we switched to closing down, there was some feeling of being hard done by in some quarters but this was more directed at the bosses than me.

The people who do get miffed are those at our other branch office who have adhered to the old system every year and then moan when we get the time off and they don't.

Savvy_Sue

So, Bossyboots, you work for a company which deals with legal issues on a daily basis, and yet ...

you don't have written statements of your terms of employment?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I like the fact that it works to your advantage. TBH I think it usually does, but you'd think they'd rectify the situation, wouldn't you?

Bossyboots

Savvy_Sue wrote:

So, Bossyboots, you work for a company which deals with legal issues on a daily basis, and yet ...

you don't have written statements of your terms of employment?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I like the fact that it works to your advantage. TBH I think it usually does, but you'd think they'd rectify the situation, wouldn't you?

Well picked up Sue. The irony is not lost on the staff believe me. I know they were contemplating rectifying the situation this time last year but it never got done. Possibly because they realised that the staff were not simply going to accept a "one size fits all" contract.