Working more then agreed hours

Me2you

We are really busy at work and my boss doesn’t want me to take my remaining 1/2 days i have a holiday as a half a day, instead he wants me to work 4 extra hours and take a full day of.

I would be working more than my agreed contract.

I don’t want to do it, just because he’s made up this rule now because it’s upset his spreadsheet (when we have an online system). Plus I have my sports practice and tv programmes.

I told him no,

elsien

Is there a question in there or are you just sharing your day?

RichardD1970

Personally, I would do the 4 hours and have a full day.

A full day off is infinitely more useful than half.

What the legal position is I don't know, but a bit of give and take in an employee/employer relationship is never a bad thing.

marlot

RichardD1970 wrote: »

Personally, I would do the 4 hours and have a full day....

Me too. It may be that the manager was trying to propose a win:win.


But I guess we don't know the context, background etc.

TELLIT01

Suggest reversing things. Take a full day holiday and 'repay' the hours over a period to suit you. See how they respond to that suggestion.

Me2you

@telli that’s kinda what I’m doing? Going into
Work to answer emails so everyone is updated... yet for some reason they don’t think this is good.

Exodi

You can't work it because you have TV programmes to watch? You sound like a delightful employee.

System

Employers can dictate when you take your holiday. Your employment contract most likely contains a condition stating you must comply with reasonable requests, this is a reasonable request.

Me2you

^my contract didctates how many hours I’m working a week and per day. Therefore if they want me to work more it’s wothout my contract.

Me2you

My workplace has a handbook stating when holiday can be taken. I’m well within the time frame. As many people have only taken one or two days for the FY I’m actually helping them by not taking full days.

Exodi

Me2you wrote: »

^my contract didctates how many hours I’m working a week and per day. Therefore if they want me to work more it’s wothout my contract.

But a lot of contracts will also have clauses stating that reasonable extra work may be required during busy periods or something to that affect. All contracts are different so it'll be a case of you reading through yours for these clauses.

I'm in a juxtaposition because I'm sensing you work in the retail sector but then I can't see many retail workers maintaining employment if they're entirely against doing any overtime.

EDIT, It seems @Tarambor said exactly the same.