Significant change to contract/working hours

NoobCannon

NoobCannon

NoobCannon

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Hi all.

looking for some advice here. Currently i work 0730-1600 (door to door) and cover 1 in 4 24h call out including weekends (including working days as normal)

my boss today has come out with a new rotor with an aim to “save the company overtime payments” in which they want us during our on call week, to work Monday to Sunday 0730-1600 as well as be on call and then have monday tuesday off the following week.

Now, i am unhappy with this for a few reasons. One because as it is currently i may not leave home at all at a weekend however if i do its at time and a half door to door. Two I have a young family and treasure my weekends i get to spend with them and three its a serious financial impact.

They are essentially asking me to change my sociable hours contract to a non sociable hours contract with an nice included financial penalty.

my contract states that my hours of work are 8-5pm Monday to friday and Any overtime is voluntary. 8-5 is with 1 hours lunch but we all take 30 mins and i start earlier as i pick up the morning jobs, its been this way for more than a year

Does anyone agree that this is a significant change and suggest how i should go about telling them that its unreasonable. At the moment they have asked for “input” on the rota i believe because my boss wants to try and sort it out on a local level initially.
 
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Lmg80 said:
What line if work is this; sounds brutal, and you can only have my sympathy.

No legal background, but would have assume any significant change to your contract, needs updating requiring your approval.
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Im an intelligent traffic systems engineer. So i fix/maintain traffic signals variable message signs etc etc (not speed cameras, everyone always asks about speed cameras)

i enjoy my job and have been doing it for 15 years now. Not that makes a difference to
The situation!
 
I don't believe i am part of any trade union. That i know of anyway.

At the moment we are trying to get a meeting together, there are only 4 of us in our area but we all work remotely in our given areas so having us all together will be frowned upon especially with the rona situation currently.

As they are currently asking for input is it worth waiting to see where it goes from
A potential meeting before raising my concerns?
 
I emailed today and put my points across. I also asked if it was an official consultation yet and was told no. However he also got a bit upset.

gauging the response from my manager he wanted it to be agreed locally, over and done with and off we go new year. I think he was expecting us to basically roll over.

i neglected to mention that 2 members of staff are unfortunately new starters in the last couple of months so can almost guarantee as that as much as they wont want to change to these new hours they wont have much choice as will still be on probation. This limits us to two who are in a position to argue.
 
Rroff said:
I can tell you how this usually goes from being involved in so many instances of it - unless the entire workforce stand against it and persistently over time they will find a way to bring it in step by step (and even if everyone stands against it they will probably find a way to single off the main "troublemakers" and isolate them so as to bring it through).

You will almost certainly find any union involvement utterly useless - a lot of talk but ultimately side with the company and ultimately aid them in easing it in just with maybe some small and largely meaningless concessions along the way that get erased in the long term.
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oh im fully expecting them to push at least some Part of it thru. But we have at least a few things going for us. I.e we are not easily replaceable And the longer we have until they force the changes thru the more time i have to apply for different companies. I will start to look once the official consultation begins
 
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