Employer want me to attend meeting outside hours

Dan-Dan

I manage a small team , and it is too busy to have any meaningful meetings at the moment , if i was to ask my staff to come in for a meeting out of hours and not pay them for it , i think with the right man management skills , plus a takeaway , might swing it , but to be honest , i would not be put out , if some said they couldnt make it , especially as some live 10-15 miles away


It`s a tough one , some companies are ruthless and will have marked the OP`s card , for sure

[Deleted User]

Like I have already stated why should I ruin my day off to come to some pointless meeting.

Apparently only about half the staff turned up and the ones I've heard from say it was a waste of time. What's the manager going to do? Sack half the workforce for not turning up to an out of hours meeting on a Sunday evening? Of course. :rotfl:

Oh and I highly doubt my "card is marked" - My work rate and attention to detail is second to none and I always score highly on my annual appraisals.

Undervalued

Deleted_User wrote: »

Like I have already stated why should I ruin my day off to come to some pointless meeting.

Apparently only about half the staff turned up and the ones I've heard from say it was a waste of time. What's the manager going to do? Sack half the workforce for not turning up to an out of hours meeting on a Sunday evening? Of course. :rotfl:

Oh and I highly doubt my "card is marked" - My work rate and attention to detail is second to none and I always score highly on my annual appraisals.

I'm not sure why you bothered posting here as you are clearly only interested in any opinions that coincide with you own.

[Deleted User]

Undervalued wrote: »

I'm not sure why you bothered posting here as you are clearly only interested in any opinions that coincide with you own.

The the opinions of being on NMW because I am crap? Yes.

jobbingmusician

I do think there are two issues here, though.

1. Not attending the meeting - you have every right not to do so.
2. Not letting them know in advance that you wouldn't be there - if you didn't do this, it's just bloody rude, and I would expect your card to be marked for that!

Stevie_Palimo

Lee I'll give you 6 months before you are sacked but do not suppose for a second you would tell the truth and let us know this happened as your nature goes against being forthright and decent judging by the posts I've read thus far.

tomtontom

DandelionPatrol wrote: »

On the evening of a non working day is fundamentally unacceptable. It blanks off the whole day for having a drink for example.

And if OP has a shift on the next day finishing at 1400, it suggest a start time of 0600. Either the Sunday or the weekday meeting after1800 would potentially breach the Working Time regs.

A whole day without alcohol? Crikey, how will you survive? :eek:

pimento

Deleted_User wrote: »

Absolutely love how everything gets twisted on here. I bet half the people who say I should go probably have the same reaction if they were asked to do something similar.

I wouldn't go either but I live a 90 min (each way) commute to work and probably more like 2 hours each way on a Sunday. They could whistle.

ViolaLass

FBaby wrote: »

And then you have some posters who come and moan that they still have a nmw job after 20 years working and that it isn't fair as not their fault...

Like how it goes from an hour on Sunday to giving up you whole Sunday. How about your boss? Does he normally works Sunday? Do you think he will enjoy taking that time to come and lead a meeting to disgruntled and moaning employees? What do they do it? Because they accept a level of dedication to the company? Oh, that might be why they ended up manager rather than on a mnw job!

I wouldn't go to the meeting and I'm not on a NMW job. The two don't have to correlate.

Also, the manager is choosing to have the meeting then so they certainly don't get to complain about the timing!

surreysaver

London50 wrote: »

Well if you are not going anyway be it legal or not is not going to make any difference to you.

It will. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Say 'no' now, and they'll know not to try it on in the future. Say yes now, and it'll be 'well, you did it last time'.