Overtime

soutram

Hi everyone, I hope someone can help

Basically I went on maternity leave them came back to work doing 16 hours a week, in August last year a member of staff left and I was asked if I would like more hours, as my child was starting nursery I said I could work a extra morning a week.

I assumed these hours would be part of my working week, it seems my bosses are classing it as overtime so I get no holiday entitlement or sick pay for those extra 4 hours.

My question is as Ive worked these hours since last August and am likley to be working them for as long as I work there can I ask insist they be made part of my working week?

It just getting to be a nightmare as some months I get paid more than others and budgeting is proving hard to do when I dont knwo what im going to be getting

Thanks

Sarah

Savvy_Sue

I am not sure you can 'insist', but you can certainly ask to have your contract changed to include them if it is indeed a long term arrangement. Possibly the employer didn't do this immediately so that you and they could see whether it worked or not, so I'd personally take the 'I was wondering if we could do this now we've seen this is working out' rather than the 'change my contract or else' route.