Rediculous amount of hours worked

N9eav

After 6 months of being unemployed, my daughter got a job at a 4 star hotel in the town. Waitress mainly...

The hotel have her working from 7.30am until 11 pm every day for 6 days in a row. One day off a week. She initially thought about the big wage packets for the hours worked, but after a week is totally knackered. She is getting 6 hours of sleep a day and working the rest.

The management seem to be ignoring all working time directives that I can see.

To complain means loss of job.....

Any thoughts?

paddedjohn

If they won't listen to her then she either walks or puts up with it, I'd walk.

Abbafan1972

I'd walk too.

It's not worth your daughter sacrificing her health and well being over it.

HappyMJ

Another vote for walking here too...She either complains and loses her job or quits.

Evilm

I'd walk but I'd probably try to report them for lack of time between shifts being less than the legally required 11hours (although I fail at working out who too this morning!).

I'm assuming that she's signed the Working Time form to opt out of the maximum 48 hours a week?

jackieblack

Info here http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/WorkingHoursAndTimeOff/DG_174586

SueC_2

I worked in hotels when I was (much) younger. It was exactly as your daughter describes - long shifts, long weeks, longer months. A constant demand to smile at, and go out of your way for, the customers, despite the fact that you don't have the energy to even hold your head straight. Hard physical work and most of the time utterly exhausting.

Despite that, or maybe because of it, the sense of camaraderie was fantastic. When you spend that amount of time with each other, you and your colleagues become each others friends and relatives too. We worked together, laughed together, cried together; helped each other, supported each other, depended on each other. And between us we made some fantastic achievements and in many instances made the seemingly impossible happen.

Not only do I now look back on those days with great fondness and very happy memories, but I truly believe they gave me the best possible training for my career and life in general.

It's a tough life, and not for everyone, but there are definitely benefits to be had from it if you can stick the course.

mildred1978

Evilm wrote: »

I'd walk but I'd probably try to report them for lack of time between shifts being less than the legally required 11hours (although I fail at working out who too this morning!).

It's an entitlement but not a right - ie, you can't take them to a tribunal about it.

paddedjohn

mildred1978 wrote: »

It's an entitlement but not a right - ie, you can't take them to a tribunal about it.

Where did you get that from??
It is a legal right to have an 11 rest.

mildred1978

paddedjohn wrote: »

Where did you get that from??
It is a legal right to have an 11 rest.

An employment barrister I know.

Good luck finding a link on how to assert the legal right without falling on your sword.

paddedjohn

Daily rest - a break between working days


If you are an adult worker you have the right to a break of at least 11 hours between working days. This means as an adult worker, if you finish workat 8.00 pm on Mondayyou should not start workuntil 7.00 am on Tuesday.