forced contract change

harl

my employers are forcing a change of contract on me to include working every sunday . i am a shop worker an have said that i will not comply my employers have said they will sack me if i refuse to sign ,i know i could opt out but to do this would mean a loss of 3.500 per year plus i would become part timer and lose other benifits .who has the right to decide what is suitable alteritive work the employer or employee any advise please

LittleVoice

Deciding alternative work should be by mutual agreement. In the absence of agreement, I believe you could take it to an Employment Tribunal to decide on reasonableness.

If you were working part-time, what benefits do you think you would lose? It would be illegal to treat a part-timer in a less favourable way than a full-time person on a pro rata basis?

jobbingmusician

DO you have 2 years' service? If so, you are entitled to redundancy if your previous job is not needed any more, and they need a new job which includes Sundays.........

(Sorry, have had a bibulous evening, so this may be off the point)

Conor_3

Discover God, harl. Sunday is a day of worship as a Christian so you can't work. And thanks to Political Correctness, they have to take account of your religions requirements.

harl

could do with finding somone to restore my faith sounds good to me ,bless you

harl

hi little voice The allowance would be reduced for uniform,holidays,sickness ,
xmas shop day off ,i feel i,d loose status also its about the princapal .

harl

Sudays are for family life.

CFC

I think you should take advice on your situation from ACAS or your CAB. Have you submitted a Sunday 'opt out' request?

Take a look at this site and check your rights as a shop worker.

http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/employment-legislation/employment-guidance/page17143.html

Precis below:

STATUTORY RIGHTS IN RELATION TO SUNDAY SHOP WORK

You have become employed as a shop worker and are or can be required under your contract of employment to do the Sunday work your contract provides for.

However, if you wish, you can give a notice, as described in the next paragraph, to your employer and you will then have the right not to work in or about a shop on any Sunday on which the shop is open once three months have passed from the date on which you gave the notice.

Your notice must:

be in writing;
be signed and dated by you;
say that you object to Sunday working.
For three months after you give the notice, your employer can still require you to do all the Sunday work your contract provides for. After the three month period has ended, you have the right to complain to an employment tribunal if, because of your refusal to work on Sundays on which the shop is open, your employer:

dismisses you, or
does something else detrimental to you, for example, failing to promote you.
Once you have the rights described, you can surrender them only by giving your employer a further notice, signed and dated by you, saying that you wish to work on Sunday or that you do not object to Sunday working and then agreeing with your employer to work on Sundays or on a particular Sunday.

welshman10

Conor wrote: »

Discover God, harl. Sunday is a day of worship as a Christian so you can't work. And thanks to Political Correctness, they have to take account of your religions requirements.

This is the path I would take.