Contract hours - reality vs literal

[Pentoman]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 26 February 2020 at 11:34

[Pentoman]

Well thanks for the support, all. Good to know there is some common sense here at least.

slow_poke said:

This isn't your fight, it's your managers' fight. Let them fight it out with Finance.

He and his various seniors have indeed "summoned" HR and Finance to a meeting since it affects so many. In the meantime just for example I stayed late fixing a major issue on Friday - I just added up the time - it was 11 hours without lunch.

Piersman2 said:

Can't you agree with your manager/timesheet signer that you will carry on working as is, but just book the standard required hours per day on the timesheet?

This is what the previous arrangement was. Manager has been very supportive and accomodating about the whole thing. However new timesheet form introduced to enforce the change even has "start time" "lunch time" and "end time" on it! It's like being children!!! So I'm not confident a local agreement with my manager would really cover me in that case. I hate to mention the 'L' word, but in the worst case it could get legal.

As suggested, hateful as it sounds, and reminiscent of British Leyland in the '70s, I may have to consider "work to rule" as much as I resent it. This would cause a problem for my manager and his current project - which we are hoping to complete before Christmas. I get on with him extremely well. So I'm not sure what would be most sensible - highlight the problem by refusing to work (that would be a first for me, and I would probably struggle) keep working on goodwill and hope he negotiates us out of the predicament.