Working on public holiday retail

ReadingTim

TELLIT01 wrote: »

I seen nothing to suggest that the OP can be made to work other days of the week.

The contract is poorly drafted (if that's what it says and all it says), but I'd suggest that the employer's intention is to hire additional staff for busy days. Whilst these are usually weekends, you can see how public holidays fall into the category of "busy days", especially as there are very few public holidays where the shops are actually shut - Christmas Day seems to be about the only one remaining.

Furthermore, I'm somewhat surprised that this seems to be news to the OP, unless of course they're only belatedly realising the implications of it...but going back to the exact wording of their contract seems as if they're being deliberately obtuse.

Suggest there's something of a misalignment of expectations here which the OP should seek to clarify with his or her employer. However, they should be aware that the outcome may not be in the OP's favour.