New Employers insisting on you giving up your 2nd job

Sticky_Toffee_Pudding

Hi all, don't know if I'm on the right forum page as have only just joined and have been clicking around like mad. I have a question I cannot find an answer to anywhere. My husband has recently began a new main job working 40hrs a week. For the past two years, he has also worked part time evenings as an assistant youth worker. His new employer has told him they want to introduce a new shift pattern at this small firm and that he will have to give up youth work because some of his shifts will run into the evening. Does anyone know if this legal? We feel agrieved that he is being forced to give up income we can't afford to lose and that his youth work is rewarding & helpful to the kids he has worked so hard to build relationships with. We really don't know what to do about this and I was hoping someone on here would have advice on where we stand.
Many many thanks

elsien

If he's just started the new job, was there not any mention of this at interview and when he accepted the post? Or was he assuming it was 9-5 and it's been sprung on him after he started?

Mistral001

Try posting in Employment, Jobseeking & Training sub forum.

You might get a better response there

russxiii

it is the wrong forum as highlighted above.

My view on this is that your husband will have had his contract given to him and in there should be his hours of work. The company are perfectly entitled to change there working hours but must change everyones contract when doing so. There are steps and procedures to this process and im sure it's not just going to be him that will be affected. Unless he works at a place that already has an existing shift pattern that your husband isn't on. If this is the case a whole new contract will have to be agreed and forms of a payrise etc will be on the battlefield. If they have lured your husband in 9to5 in order to change his hours later on then this is not good, however perfectly legal.


Im assuming your OH has not been with this company for more than 12 months? if not, you dont really have too much to stand on because he wont have full employment rights.


As far as a solution, that i can't help you with im afraid as that's as far as my legal knowledge goes.

Hope all goes well.

kazwookie

Your hubby could agree to work the evening type shifts, but not on a (x) (x) (x) nights when youth club is on. A sort of compromise, and ask if the new rota could be worked out accordingly.

How many nights per week at the youth club does he work? can they move his nights about to fit in as well.

I would have thought a bit of give and take should sort it all out.