Reduced working hours by 50%??

danny2324

I was on a permenent full time 37 hour week contract working for the NHS in 2004. Due to my ilness, I was on sick for a period of 12 months some time ago and placed on a phased return to work programme, which I never received a copy of. This started with 20 hours a week which I did for 18 months.

6 months ago, a new post came up which I took on, maybe as a second employment (Continuous??). This entailed an extra 18 hours a week (Thus making my hours and days of work up to my inital employment contract). I never received any changed terms or additional contract.

2 weeks ago they reduced my hours back to 20 per week. Can they do this? I requested my contract off HR. The only one they have is 37 hrs/wk from 2004.

If it is that this was a temporary post, would they have to justify to me the non-renewal, or offer some sort of redundancy payment for continous employment?

It has become apparent that they have offered zero hour staff more hours than me, without offering me overtime above the 20 hours.

What should I do? I cannot afford to live on 20 hours a week

SarEl

This isn't at all clear, and the NHS is strange at the ebst of times. A separate job is a seperate job, but it isn't clear here what the arrangement was. Are you in a union - because that would be the obvious place to go.