Zero hour contract - care agency

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SeduLOUs my son put in a holiday request in July for a holiday in October.
As you say my son can reject work for that week so his employers are being silly, it has caused bad feeling and put a dampener on the holiday.
He already has an offer of another job, but he likes his colleagues and just wants to be treated fairly by his current employer.

SeduLOUs

treetops wrote: »

He already has an offer of another job, but he likes his colleagues and just wants to be treated fairly by his current employer.

He should take the other job then. He can keep in touch with the colleagues after he leaves, and chances are he will meet people he gets on with at the new job too. No guarantees the next employer will be better though, but I'd say it's worth a shot.

flightboy

Excuse me if this is a silly question but if he has the experience already working in care surely to stop issues like this he may as well just find a job with a proper contract so he wont have the hassle going forward?

People in care homes are in demand all over now i know where my mother works they pretty much work the hours and days they want there is such a shortage

suki1964

SeduLOUs wrote: »

Of course not everyone is evil, and your employer sounds quite reasonable.

However in the case of the OP, he has given four weeks notice of wanting some time off as holiday and they have provisionally said no due to cover issues and now appear to be ignoring. This seems awfully silly when the worker can simply reject work for that week anyway and if holidays have been accrued they will need to be paid out one way or another eventually.

It implies that they are not much like your employer, and are more like the type of company that want their staff to be at their beck and call as it suits them, and will drop them the second you 'let them down' and give your hours to the next person who comes along.

My experience has been with many employers, the NHS, ipso mori, local gvt and smaller local small family businesses (who can't afford the bells and whistles of employing someone full time )

Never once have I been treated as any less as a full time worker