Termination of Employment

Forwandert

Mistakes like this do happen. There is a particular large retailer that due to a takeover last year employed lots of new colleagues on a temporary basis due to not knowing how well the stores would do. Basically the people managers sent several areas new contacts of employment out as permanent instead of temporary and not all store managers are aware of what contracts have been sent out. This may be the case with your daughters (it might be the same retailer too)

xxlozxx

clairec79 wrote: »

Is she working extra hours over the summer holidays? Ie has a temporary extra hours contract alongside her permanent part time one

No she was contracted to work 13 hours per week when she started (Saturday 7.5 hours and Sunday 5.5 hours). She has never done extra hours.

xxlozxx

Forwandert wrote: »

Mistakes like this do happen. There is a particular large retailer that due to a takeover last year employed lots of new colleagues on a temporary basis due to not knowing how well the stores would do. Basically the people managers sent several areas new contacts of employment out as permanent instead of temporary and not all store managers are aware of what contracts have been sent out. This may be the case with your daughters (it might be the same retailer too)

If they are making her redundant then fair enough nothing can be done about it. But would hate her to lose her job because of an administrative error. From what I can gather they are terminating all the temporary contracted employees within the next 4-6 weeks and will be asking permanent staff to reduce their hours. She would be quite happy to reduce her hours but really doesn't want to lose her job altogether. I have written my daughter a reply for her to her manager enclosing a copy of the original Vacancy Advertisement (which states the job title as PERMANENT WEEKEND CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANT) the subsequent offer letter and her contract of employment which actually states her job title on it as PERMANENT WEEKEND CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANT with her contracted hours as 13 per week. They did put out another advertisement for TEMPORARY CHRISTMAS STAFF a few weeks after she started working for them so I really don't know. They have kept these temporary staff on up until now and these are the staff that have received these letters also. Maybe her manager has just got confused and thought she was a temporary employee because she started around the same time as the Christmas Temps. Yes it probably is the same retailer!