flexible working hours

hornetstinger · 18 Nov 2016 at 21:29

My employer is using flexible working hours to restricting me in getting another job, ie I'm available for them for many hours a week far more than my contracted hours, and I'm trying to get a job that was outside of those hours when I started and in the interview the manager accepted I was not available 6-9 as I had another job. Then I lost that morning job so got some overtime hours from from the job. However I need another morning job- but the business has opened earlier. So when I go for a interview and inform I got the job, I am threatened that I am not flexible for the company.

What can I do? Apart from getting a full time job and quitting this job?

hornetstinger · 18 Nov 2016 at 21:40

Can you not get another job offering fixed hours?

yes I got one, was offered 18 hours 3 hours a day, and when I informed the manager (2 of those days were what I work) he used the "well we will have to look at your employement here" sort of thing.

hornetstinger · 18 Nov 2016 at 21:51

Have 3 jobs. One is 16 contracted, another 12.5, another is casual and very flexible ie if I don't have saturday work in the 16 hour then I get a few hours on the casual, ie 4-6 which is plenty, also if I'm on holiday on the 16 hour then I can do lots more in the casual as supervisor takes holiday so get quite a few.

Income isn't a problem is just getting third job fixed hours- I had that before and 16 hour job manager understood and accepted me, just hours have been changed and not willing to go back to the old times. I'm more tired now even though I'm doing less hours as the morning shift is moving heavy items, before it was just working in the shop.

Asked 16 hour place for FT contract and he doesn't have any FT positions.

hornetstinger · 18 Nov 2016 at 22:12

basically he said rotas have been done for 6 weeks so not going change them (new job started next week) only way would be could do new job (for now) if I were to get other members of staff to cover those shifts that conflict with my job. No way to do that. Also I'm a key holder so would need to get another key holder to do early shift, not a non key holder staff member.

I used to do saturday, sunday, and one day in the week and that fulfilled my contract. Now he's put me on mon, wed, fri early, then sunday but taken me off saturday. So more days. That means I cannot get a job mon-fri <9am. Only can get a job work tues, thur, so that rules out the types of shift jobs available. Those jobs don't offer tuesday all day, and thursday all day.

hornetstinger · 21 Nov 2016 at 19:45

Correct. One was 12.5 hour contracts, so that's not enough. Then get another 16 hours a week then got another, and even another casual (zero hour) so sometimes I get 50/60/70 hours week. 16 hour job and casual overtime due to retail & holiday cover

hornetstinger · 21 Nov 2016 at 21:30

My contract is 16 hours a week.

When I started the manager accepted I can work 9am-3pm monday friday, all day saturday, all day sunday. I could not work evenings monday-friday. The shop opened at 9am.

But the store now has 6:30 start so I said I could do it as pretty much I was the only one interested and I do all of the earlies, but now he's made that permenant. Taken me off saturday, rather than giving saturday then earlies. I was not informed that is now required by contract- that I now cannot do earlies then I am not "flexible" enough.

What does UK say about this? If I inform him and give him notice that I cannot do earlies, can he sack me for not being flexible?

hornetstinger · 21 Nov 2016 at 21:45

about 3-4 months