Told to do night shifts when not contracted to

Anarchist

Hi all,

Just a quick question for some of you, who I'm sure will be more knowledgeable than me!

I work 9-5. It's in my contract. I am required to do overtime in the form of out of hours support for one week in four, but I very very rarely get called on to do this (like, two or three times a year, and for only a few hours in the evening)

However, our company has just scored a large contract, which they require somebody to do some remote support for hong kong during their working hours. Which starts at our time, 2am, for eight hours.

This will only be for a couple of nights.

However, they are refusing to offer any money for working this shift, as it would be instead of working my 9-5. I have no idea how I'd manage the shift in time.

I obviously don't want to do this shift (as they are offering nothing).

Help?

Anarchist

PS I quite like my job, although my pay is probably already a little below industry average (I've not had a raise in nearly three years!)

System

Doesn't that fall under out of hours support?

anamenottaken

Anarchist wrote: »

Hi all,

Just a quick question for some of you, who I'm sure will be more knowledgeable than me!

I work 9-5. It's in my contract. I am required to do overtime in the form of out of hours support for one week in four, but I very very rarely get called on to do this (like, two or three times a year, and for only a few hours in the evening)

However, our company has just scored a large contract, which they require somebody to do some remote support for hong kong during their working hours. Which starts at our time, 2am, for eight hours.

This will only be for a couple of nights.

However, they are refusing to offer any money for working this shift, as it would be instead of working my 9-5. I have no idea how I'd manage the shift in time.

I obviously don't want to do this shift (as they are offering nothing).

Help?

They are offering you nothing extra. You would not be doing it for nothing.

If you are worried about the time shift, look at what time you would have off before and after and think about how you could prepare.

Anarchist

!!!!!! wrote: »

Doesn't that fall under out of hours support?

No, the out of hours support im contracted to cover is for breakdowns. And that is for paid overtime.

paddedjohn

How do you work out that you will be working for nothing?

Make sure you get your daily rest between your day and night shifts which must be 11 hrs minimum.

Sosdon

Make sure you get your daily rest between your day and night shifts which must be 11 hrs minimum.

Thats not correct in most industry's , we do a morning and night shift once a week , it gives us a gap of only 8 hours between shifts..

Anarchist

Do none of you understand?

I did not apply for a job to do 2am shifts. I don't work in an industry where I am expected to do night shifts (it's an office job, supporting office hours). They did not check with me that it would be something I would or could do, before bidding for this contract.

I do not want to do night shifts. I've never done them before. I'm not a student, I have plenty of professional qualifications and earn a reasonable living.

The facts are, that my employer is demanding I work extremely unsociable hours, that I am not contracted to. And they are threatening to remove my annual bonuses if I do not. I have family responsibilities that would make this very hard on me, and they have not tried to negotiate in any way.

MissSarah1972

Anarchist wrote: »

Do none of you understand?

I did not apply for a job to do 2am shifts. I don't work in an industry where I am expected to do night shifts (it's an office job, supporting office hours). They did not check with me that it would be something I would or could do, before bidding for this contract.

I do not want to do night shifts. I've never done them before. I'm not a student, I have plenty of professional qualifications and earn a reasonable living.

The facts are, that my employer is demanding I work extremely unsociable hours, that I am not contracted to. And they are threatening to remove my annual bonuses if I do not. I have family responsibilities that would make this very hard on me, and they have not tried to negotiate in any way.

How long have you been in this job?

Is your bonus part of your contract?

Was anyone else asked/told to do this shift?

Anarchist

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

How long have you been in this job?

Is your bonus part of your contract?

Was anyone else asked/told to do this shift?

Getting on three years,

Bonus is part of my contract,

One other engineer (my junior), but he is on the same position as me, two young children, and he definitely doesn't want to do it!

miduck

Anarchist wrote: »

This will only be for a couple of nights.

This ^^

Get on with it. Get over it. It's not going to kill you!