Told to work later...
Discussion
Hi, this is a bit of a sticky predicament that I feel I am in.
Basically we haven't had a Manager now for two months and we've been desperately borrowing staff for cover on certain days.
I am the only full time member of staff and my hours are 8-1600 Monday to Friday. Whereas the other two members of staff are both key time workers meaning they're both on aero hour contracts and they essentially work wen they want to.
So one of the key time workers finish at two today meaning a Manager from another station that has sort of been overseeing things has told me via voicemail of a key time worker saying I'm going to have to stay till six.
I wouldn't normally mind too much but I'll be arranging fleet and I have no experience in this, probably one or two hours maximum?
Looking in my colleague handbook it says you'll be expected to work overtime at short notice. Am I within my rights to say no and finish at four like I normally do?
The line of work I do is car rental and I apologise if this is a struggle to read as writing this on a phone is tricky!
Basically we haven't had a Manager now for two months and we've been desperately borrowing staff for cover on certain days.
I am the only full time member of staff and my hours are 8-1600 Monday to Friday. Whereas the other two members of staff are both key time workers meaning they're both on aero hour contracts and they essentially work wen they want to.
So one of the key time workers finish at two today meaning a Manager from another station that has sort of been overseeing things has told me via voicemail of a key time worker saying I'm going to have to stay till six.
I wouldn't normally mind too much but I'll be arranging fleet and I have no experience in this, probably one or two hours maximum?
Looking in my colleague handbook it says you'll be expected to work overtime at short notice. Am I within my rights to say no and finish at four like I normally do?
The line of work I do is car rental and I apologise if this is a struggle to read as writing this on a phone is tricky!
liner33 said:
I think they should do more than leave a voicemail if they want to make a permanent change to your contract, if they are however making a request for you to work until 6pm for a short period of time then your handbook confirms they can do that.
Still I would want a written request and chance to discuss this with a manager rather than just accept.
I dont think you have to accept but if the business demands an extra 10 hours from your role each week then it puts you in a difficult position depending on how long you have been there
I guess this is what has gotten my back up, this Manager from a different station has called me enough to discuss job related stuff and she doesn't have the nerve to call me to confirm wherever it is okay for me. Still I would want a written request and chance to discuss this with a manager rather than just accept.
I dont think you have to accept but if the business demands an extra 10 hours from your role each week then it puts you in a difficult position depending on how long you have been there
I've emailed her enough times requesting holiday and she just ignores it...
I've worked here for six months and to be fair it's really not very nice place to work for, always short staffed and they take people for granted.
The people that oversee the rota have known for weeks that there are some days that we need cover and as you can see, they always leave things til last minute.
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