What does working "4 days on and 4 days off with no weekedn work" mean?

peace800

What does it mean. Does it mean that if one works mon,tues,wed,thurs he will have the following fri,sat,sun,mon off?

I have applied for a job which refers to this and it is on a "late shift pattern" i.e. finsihing at 8pm in evening but they say no sat or sunday working.


thanks

Retired_I.F.A.

It a ten week cycle where the workfoce in split into two shifts one on one off and both off sat and sun. Your planning gets pretty much mixed up though if the company is closed on bank holidays.

MTWT ON
F**MTW OFF
TF**MT ON
!!!!!!**M OFF
TWTF ON
**MTWT OFF
F**MTW ON
TF**MT OFF
!!!!!!**M ON
TWTF** OFF


edit...

Actually its a 56 day cycle not 10 weeks sorry

geordie_joe

I don't understand, surely you can't work 4 days on and 4 days off without having to work on a saturday and sunday.

I would ask them to explain. You don't want to start a job until you know exactly when you are working.

Petlamb

Continental shifts don't really work with 'no weekend work'... To still be at full time hours, you'd really need to do one or the other (ie EITHER mtwtf--mtwtf-- etc normal shifts or mtwt----twtf----wtfs continentals... otherwise you're going to be off a LOT.)

Retired_I.F.A.

I agree it dont work out..

in 56 days (8 weeks) assuming an 8am start and the 8pm finish as stated with a total of 1.5 hours in breaks one works 4 x 10.5 x 5 = 210 hours
210 hrs in 8 weeks = 26.25 hrs a week

Nice if the hourly rate is very high otherwise it's a part time job.