a couple of questions

eminemfan001

Hi everyone just looking for a bit of advice. I currently work for a supermarket and have been going to college which involved a placement. I have now been offered a job from my placement but until it is made perminant i want to keep on my supermarket job because the hours tie in and it means extra pennies towards my savings. The only thing was i wanted to drop my saturday shift from the supermarket so i could have a day off each week.

i asked my manager and she said yes but wait until after her holiday. She then came up to me today and told me her manager has now said i cant drop it because head office wont replace me. I can however drop my sunday shift even though its the same length of time. I dont really want to do this because i get time and i half for working sundays so it will mean a big drop in wages. I just wondered if they were allowed to force me to keep that shift?

Second question was about my new job. Its in a school and i just wondered how that works for wages. My mum thinks they dont pay you at all for the school holidays so i just wondered if she was right?

thank you for taking the time to read. Sorry about any typos i cant work my tablet yet lol.

Southend1

eminemfan001 wrote: »

Hi everyone just looking for a bit of advice. I currently work for a supermarket and have been going to college which involved a placement. I have now been offered a job from my placement but until it is made perminant i want to keep on my supermarket job because the hours tie in and it means extra pennies towards my savings. The only thing was i wanted to drop my saturday shift from the supermarket so i could have a day off each week.

i asked my manager and she said yes but wait until after her holiday. She then came up to me today and told me her manager has now said i cant drop it because head office wont replace me. I can however drop my sunday shift even though its the same length of time. I dont really want to do this because i get time and i half for working sundays so it will mean a big drop in wages. I just wondered if they were allowed to force me to keep that shift?

Second question was about my new job. Its in a school and i just wondered how that works for wages. My mum thinks they dont pay you at all for the school holidays so i just wondered if she was right?

thank you for taking the time to read. Sorry about any typos i cant work my tablet yet lol.

They can't force you, you have the option to resign if you don't like the shift pattern. It may be worth seeing if there's another employee who's looking for extra hours and making a case to management to give your Saturday shift to them instead.

Re: your school job, someone more knowledgeable will be along soon, I'm sure, but I expect that if you are hourly paid and work term time only you will not be paid anything during school hols. If you're salaried, the salary may more likely be split equally over 12 months.

lakes17

I used to deal with salaries for people working in schools. You don't get paid the school holidays , however you are entitled to(in our case 25 + all Bank Holidays paid). We use to work out the Annual salary on that basis i.e. 43 weeks paid then pay a twelfth of that each month.

bluenoseam

School holidays vary, but it's not unheard of for your pay to be "averaged out" to 12 equal payments even for hourly paid staff.

As for the first question, that's trickier. You can request to drop back to contractual hours (which you've done) & they can, for business reasons decline (which they've done). The tricky part is your contract will most likely state something along the lines of agreeing to work overtime if the business requires it. If that's the case you're kind of on a hiding to nothing, if not it then becomes a case of timing - have you been there 2 years. If the answer's yes you can in theory write stating your intention to drop to purely contract hours, but they could then argue they can control which hours you work - placing you in a pickle when they chose school hours! If the answer is no, you're stuffed because as soon as you get pushy over it you're pushy out the door, no questions asked.