16 year old, temp job, too many hours?

balletshoes

CH27 wrote: »

IMO you should not have contacted them.
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I have to agree - I think you should have discussed it with your daughter, pointed out that the shifts seemed very close together and you weren't sure that was right, and then left it to your daughter, the employee, to contact the company and clarify the situation.
She's 16, a lot of 16-year olds are in full time work, in the adult world and workplace. She's not 13 and its not a paper round.

sewandsew03

CH27 wrote: »

IMO you should not have contacted them.
Also I do hope you didn't take the snotty attitude you've displayed on this thread.

Snooty.....look around you:D

You have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what I said on the phone!!!!

*max*

It was only a couple of shifts, it's not as if they were sending her down the mines! If that was to be a permanent position, and likely to occur every week for the foreseeable, then yes, she should have mentionned it (note I said SHE, not mum...). But having her mum phone up over a couple of shifts - even though the shift pattern was a mistake - will not have done her any favours.

Sometimes you have to pick your battles.

Lokolo

hollylangman37 wrote: »

I had a Saturday job at 16 and I am still working for that company whilst in education. My initial contract was only 4 Saturdays, so it is possible a further job could come out of this.

Indeed 4 Saturdays, presumably more than 3 hours as well? I agree, something could come out of it, but its a lot less likely now she's only working a total of 6 hours.

The girl couldn't work the hours offered as it would be illegal for her to do so.

I know when I was 16 I didn't look up whether it was illegal to work the hours I did (and funnily enough, they were), I just did the work. The OPs DD could have done the same.

We don't know what the conversation the mum had with Next, so I see that as entirely irrelevant. In hindsight, the daughter should have rang up asking for the hours to be clarified and then looked into whether what was being offered was legal or not together.

Agreed that the OP should have stayed out of the conversation between DD and the employer.

The daughter knows that she will only be working a few hours and could have said actually I'm not bothered, I wanted to do more but she hasn't.

I think it's highly unlikely that the OPs DD would have said "Oh I don't want to have worked those extra 6 hours".

sewandsew03

Dunroamin wrote: »

You said on an earlier thread that you were at home all day which is why I commented that you might not understand how the working world operates.

Oh sorry, I don't mention on EVERY thread that I'm self employed and I work from home........would you like me to?

sulkisu

hollylangman37 wrote: »

No she wouldn't. It would be illegal for her to work that shift pattern.

At the risk of setting OP off again, perhaps a better way of handling the situation would have been for the daughter (who is after all, old enough to work) to have raised the issue with the store instead of her mother. The outcome would have been the same and the daughter would probably gained a few brownie points into the bargain for tackling a difficult situation with maturity. Even though the store clearly made a mistake and were in the wrong, having a parent phone on your behalf to sort something out, does you no favours.

PS - that is a suggestion, not a criticism.

geri1965_2

What a pathetic lot some of you are with your sniping and petty remarks. Maybe the sun is making you irritable, but there is no need for it.

hollylangman37

I think a lot of people are missing the point, for the girl to work both the shifts would be illegal.
It doesn't matter if it's for a week or continuous.

I agree with Balletshoes, I don't think the Mum should have contacted the company as it's the daughter's job but what's done is done.

sewandsew03

Lokolo wrote: »

I think it's highly unlikely that the OPs DD would have said "Oh I don't want to have worked those extra 6 hours".

Once again another poster assuming what other people think!

She didn't want to get home at gone 12 and get up again at gone 4am

Lokolo

sewandsew03 wrote: »

Once again another poster assuming what other people think!

She didn't want to get home at gone 12 and get up again at gone 4am

I didn't assume anything, I just said it's highly unlikely.