Can the company i work for treat me like this? I need some advice please.

leah2189

i currently work part time, 19 hours per week but the company i work for have told me that they want to reduce mine and my managers hours, as there are only two of us working at the moment, they are wanting to reduce our hours but also employ someone else. are they allowed to do this? i have read through my contract but cant see nothing regarding this.

LadyMissA

someone will come along and tell me I do not know what I am talking about so do not take this as a fact but I guess they can as they can change your contract to reflect the new hours and take on another person and you either accept the new contract or not. I have no idea why they want to cut hours to take someone else on unless it's going to cost them less.

maninthestreet

Why are they taking on a new employee at the same time as reducing your hours? It doesn't make sense. How long have you worked for your employer? What does your employment contract state about the hours you will work each work?

SarEl

There isn't enough information here to say very much useful. They can reduce yiour contractual hours - they have. So the only real question is whether this is lawful and whether they will be able to enforce this change, and without information about your contract, why this change is being made and how they are making the change then that is impossible to say.

Evilm

maninthestreet wrote: »

Why are they taking on a new employee at the same time as reducing your hours? It doesn't make sense.

I would imagine its because there is currently only two of them and the company doesn't feel that provides adequate cover in case of illness, holiday or emergency.

It could also be that they anticipate the need for the third person to be around with everyone doing the same or higher numbers of hours than they are now due to new business coming on board in, say, 6 months. Therefore if they reduce the hours of the existing 2 and bring the 3rd person on now during the 'quiet' period to train them then they can be ready to run on their own when the new work comes in.

Whatever the reason I think the answer is yes, they can reduce your hours. It depends on the contract but if they still want to do it all they have to do is offer you the choice: sign a new contract with lower hours or no longer have a job.

leah2189

the area manager is saying she wants 3 memebers of staff even though me and the manager are willing to do sundays between us. the job they are advertising for at the moment is for 5.5 hours on a sunday. yes i fully understand that they are allowed to reduce my contracted hours, but by law is she allowed to reduce both our hours and employ a sunday member of staff? or should she be offering those 5.5 hours to us isntead of reducing our hours?

getmore4less

You will still be probably covering the Sunday worker for holiday and sick

Will they be required to cover you other days in their contracts?

What are the total hours required per week?

how do you currently cover holidays and sick

ohreally

Apply for the vacancy.