Part time hours refused as too many existing part timers

jacques_chirac

Star999 wrote: »

The current part time employees are also mothers so cannot do more hours.
And if they wanted to get another part timer to make up my hours, surely an additional one hour to make it 16hours will not be a problem for the business?

I doubt anyone will work that extra hour for free!

RichardD1970

Star999 wrote: »

And if they wanted to get another part timer to make up my hours, surely an additional one hour to make it 16hours will not be a problem for the business?

Anything that unnecessarily costs the business more will be seen as a problem.

Star999

Maybe I was being too optimistic. I just thought as my hours weren't going to cause a problem, they would be ok.

Star999

jacques_chirac wrote: »

I doubt anyone will work that extra hour for free!

And I doubt that extra hour will damage the business.

Takeaway_Addict

Star999 wrote: »

And I doubt that extra hour will damage the business.

Lower profits? If you don't agree with their view then take it to tribunal as suggested.

Poppie68

Star999 wrote: »

And I doubt that extra hour will damage the business.

Thats 4 extra hours a month that they are not paying for now, plus the cost of employing and managing another person.

nodiscount

RichardD1970 wrote: »

And number 1.

It costs more to employ 2 part time people doing 20 hrs each than 1 full time doing 40hrs.

How so? Isn't it cheaper because there's less employer NI to pay?

Star999

Poppie68 wrote: »

Thats 4 extra hours a month that they are not paying for now, plus the cost of employing and managing another person.

The question is will that DAMAGE the business?
A company that employs 2,500 people?

Southend1

Star999 wrote: »

The question is will that DAMAGE the business?
A company that employs 2,500 people?

If you feel that strongly, call your union and ask for some legal advice on how this may be viewed by the employment tribunal.

But before you do that or anything else, just ASK if anyone would be prepared to swop hours with you!!

notanewuser

Star999 wrote: »

The question is will that DAMAGE the business?
A company that employs 2,500 people?

What if 10 people after you want to reduce their hours, and they need to pay 10 extra hours to get part timers to fill the gap?

What if 100 employees want to do that? Or 1000?

They should just do it because they did it for you, right? Even though that will cost them 520/5200/52,000 hours a year extra? At minimum wage that's about £3,300/£33,000/£333,000 off their profit margin.