Part time contract

Jacquio90

Can an employer ask you to be available for any day on a part time 7 hour contract. Have asked not to be put down for certain days in Dec/Jan 2 months in advance but have been told that I have to make myself available on all days. Can anyone help?
Thanks

74jax

Do you mean you work on a rota and the rota is not out yet, or that during the weeks in question he may call you in at short notice? can you take holiday?

[Deleted User]

Depends.

If your rota specifies days of the week you work, than you can always plan ahead anytime.

If its a flexible rota where they say 7 hours to be arranged over a 7 day period to be part of a rota each week, then yes because they can rota you in for whatever day they want.

Jacquio90

So you can’t make arrangements 2 months in advance just in case you are rotated for 7 hours. Surely that can’t be right! So you are at their beckoned call and not being paid.

Jacquio90

Yes. Rota is done a month in advance

scalextric

That is pretty poor, what if you worked somewhere else for a day a week. How can they make you stay free for the whole week just because they want you for only 7 hours at any time they want. I would be trying to get them to put me on a fixed day each week if it was me

Blatchford

Jacquio90 wrote: »

Surely that can’t be right! .

You can book holiday just like anyone else. If you have enough holiday to take. Otherwise, then yes, it's "right" in the sense that you cannot dictate to the employer when they will or won't put you on the rota. That might seem unfair if you only work 7 hours, but that not relevant. Your choice is to refuse to work when you don't want to, and you will probably be sacked; or get another job before that happens.

getmore4less

You should be able to book the full week off using one day of holiday(from your 5.6 weeks) if you need to block out a week

Blatchford

That said, on second thoughts, it should be noted that an employer can refuse to authorise holiday if they wish.

Undervalued

getmore4less wrote: »

You should be able to book the full week off using one day of holiday(from your 5.6 weeks) if you need to block out a week

Should?

There is no legal requirement to be able do that. The only legal requirement is that the OP gets their statutory amount of holiday but, taken literally, the employer can totally dictate when.