Is this allowed? (UK)

getmore4less

Xbigman said:

This is the pattern that I have. 



This is how a rotating pattern that advances one day a week works. The OP has assumed it is a linear pattern that would see them work that last Sat as well, but it won't be. Or if it is then its wrong.
The OP needs to put up the full shift pattern they are working to settle this. I suspect their agency may have only given them their shifts for October and a lot of assumptions have been made. 
Incidentally, I spent 18 months on a colleague forum looking at shift patterns and this is a simple one.


Darren

The above is wrong because weeks 6 and 7 have the wrong pattern there are 3 days off in a row and only 5 working days in the week7

 8 day(6+2) shift pattern  takes  7 cycles cycle rotate back to the beginning 

that takes up 8 weeks in total days  not 7 weeks a whole row(week) has been missed off the table(the 7th cycle starts on SUnday week 7 and goes through to Sunday week 8, then the cycles repeat with the monday off.

There are (6*7=42) working  days and (2*7=14) days off over 8 weeks

42 days working  over 8 weeks is average week of 5.25 days each week  at 8 hours a day that 42hour weeks.

Manxman_in_exile

That calculation is consistent with mine.  I wasn't sure if the three consecutive days off on Xbigman's rota were an illustration of the adjustment required to the OP's rota to get it right.  (Xbigman did say that was how such a rota should work).

The OP needs to ask his agency.

Thrugelmir

If the OP is working through an agency. Then will get paid for the hours they actually work.  The OP's issue appears to be not being paid overtime if the total hours worked fall within the same week. 

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Manxman_in_exile said:

That calculation is consistent with mine.  I wasn't sure if the three consecutive days off on Xbigman's rota were an illustration of the adjustment required to the OP's rota to get it right.  (Xbigman did say that was how such a rota should work).

The OP needs to ask his agency.

That 7 week cycle is not a 6 on 2 off shift pattern.

Some shift patterns have much longer cycles to repeat.