Employment Law Question

[holymonk]

Hi

Just started a new job with what we would call these days a quango.

My question is that I signed a contract with 27 days annual leave, but it appears from my induction 95% of the other employees of the same job description who have the same start date as me have 30 days.

I queried this with HR, I was told that those who got an offer before the 01 May got the old 'terms of employment' and those from the 01 May onwards got the new terms, and that they had to honour the old terms.

Is this right, I don't want to rock the boat but it feels a bit mean?

 

[singularity]

Leave it

 

[Castiel]

You agreed to an offer, they agreed to their offer.

I do not see the problem, as long as you are allocated the minimum statutory holiday entitlement of 5.6 weeks then you have no legal recompense.

 

[Bear]

They have done nothing wrong as it was based on the date of the offer.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Is this right,

Yes - they can employ you on any terms (above the legal minimum) you agree to*

I assume the 27 days leave excludes public holidays - as the legal minimum leave entitlement is 5.6weeks (28 days) for a worker working full time (5 days a week).


*As long as it's not discriminatory - i.e. employing the women on 28 days A/L and all the men on 35 wouldn't be OK for example.

 

[scwba06]

Youve not really got a leg to stand on sorry