Advice please, Part time worker rights?

lostkelly

Hi, I am after some advise if anyone could help please?
I am a part time worker on an hourly contract. I do 26 hours a week. With the current crisis we have been told we have to work single staffed. Now my other colleagues are full time but salary paid. So we have been working less hours but with the same pay which has been really good. However now they have told me because I am hourly paid I can't have the extra time off but my other full time colleagues can still and I need to work my full 26 hours contract. My issue isn't I have to work my hours. That is after all what I am paid to do, my issue is I'm being treated differently to full time staff, I thought I should be treated the same. Why do full time staff get to have time off and get paid for it but I don't? Am I wrong in my way of thinking. I have been getting between 6-8 hours off a week and other colleague have between 1-2 days off (so 7.5hours per day) so proportionately seems to be fair. What do you think. I don't really want to make a big deal out of it but how am I meant to feel part of a team when I'm singled out.
Any advice would be appreciated. 
Thanks in advance for your help. 

Comms69

Can you elaborate what you think is actually happening?
Whilst there is some protection for part time workers, i dont see the real 'issue'.

You are paid 26 hours a week, but only required to work 18-20?
They are paid 37.5 hours a week, but are only working 22.5-30?

I dont see how broadly you are treated any differently?

General_Grant

Comms69 said:

Can you elaborate what you think is actually happening?
Whilst there is some protection for part time workers, i dont see the real 'issue'.

You are paid 26 hours a week, but only required to work 18-20?
They are paid 37.5 hours a week, but are only working 22.5-30?

I dont see how broadly you are treated any differently?

Not quite. 
AIUI:
the OP is contracted for 26 hours and recently was on full pay but reduced hours.
the OP has now been told to work the full 26 hours a week whereas the full-timers are still working reduced hours but presumably still on full pay.

lostkelly

General_Grant said:

Comms69 said:

Can you elaborate what you think is actually happening?
Whilst there is some protection for part time workers, i dont see the real 'issue'.

You are paid 26 hours a week, but only required to work 18-20?
They are paid 37.5 hours a week, but are only working 22.5-30?

I dont see how broadly you are treated any differently?

Not quite. 
AIUI:
the OP is contracted for 26 hours and recently was on full pay but reduced hours.
the OP has now been told to work the full 26 hours a week whereas the full-timers are still working reduced hours but presumably still on full pay.

Yes that's right. I am working my full 26 hours now and paid for that. The full time staff still being paid fully but working less hours. Which was something I was doing this past month but been told no the next upcoming month. 

KatrinaWaves

I don't believe there is an legal requirement for parity in these circumstances. Currently here I work some people are at home doing nothing, some people are home working and some are still working their full normal job, all on full pay.

MEM62

You cannot draw the comparison that you are trying to.  Your salaried colleagues and you are paid differently.  You will therefore be impacted in different ways by the arrangements that your employers put into place to cope with what are currently unprecedented and unusual circumstances will impact you in different ways.  There is no fair or unfair involved - just differences in your terms and conditions.