Pushing hard for part time.
Discussion
My mrs has worked for the council in a residential care home for the last 18 years, and she loves her job. She has always been on a zero hours contract and chosen to do 8-16 hours a week. Back in March she was told she had to sign up to a full time contract or she wouldn't be getting any more shifts as the job tends to be done by a lot of old unhealthy people who went off sheilding and they needed younger fitter people to rely on.
She has had 100% attendance throughout and a flawless disciplinary record.
She agreed, on the basis that when the schools went back she could drop to part time hours.
Schools have been back a while, and the manager she made the agreement with is on long term sick/suspension as soon as they are back due to some severe misconduct that a few of the managment were allegedly up to, there is a legal investigation happening.
It is endless temporary managers who are not prepared to discuss part time hours as they dont want to rock the boat, as there is so much s
t flying around just now. A bk has been dropped big time and the remaining people are doing what public sector managment do best, trying to avoid being on the hook for being blamed for something/having to do extra work/show any leadership.
Her working full time and us having childcare issues that even with a paid childminder my business is losing more than she earns as the 2pm-10pm shift really clashes with when I need to be working. We don't need her wage but she really wants to keep her SSSC certification up to date, she has had to do a lot of studying for the role, it isn't a basic carers role, she doesn't want to just throw it all away, but we cant go on like this.
What are our rights in pushing to be considered for a drop to part time hours?
She is going to try to get in front of someone who might listen, but knowing what our rights are would help.
She has had 100% attendance throughout and a flawless disciplinary record.
She agreed, on the basis that when the schools went back she could drop to part time hours.
Schools have been back a while, and the manager she made the agreement with is on long term sick/suspension as soon as they are back due to some severe misconduct that a few of the managment were allegedly up to, there is a legal investigation happening.
It is endless temporary managers who are not prepared to discuss part time hours as they dont want to rock the boat, as there is so much s
t flying around just now. A bk has been dropped big time and the remaining people are doing what public sector managment do best, trying to avoid being on the hook for being blamed for something/having to do extra work/show any leadership. Her working full time and us having childcare issues that even with a paid childminder my business is losing more than she earns as the 2pm-10pm shift really clashes with when I need to be working. We don't need her wage but she really wants to keep her SSSC certification up to date, she has had to do a lot of studying for the role, it isn't a basic carers role, she doesn't want to just throw it all away, but we cant go on like this.
What are our rights in pushing to be considered for a drop to part time hours?
She is going to try to get in front of someone who might listen, but knowing what our rights are would help.
An employer has to properly condsider any request made by an employee to change their working practise, this includes such things as more flexible working, reducing hours, working from home etc, they cannont just give a blanket no without proper condsideration and must, if required be able to show vaild business or operational reasons why such a request cannot be granted
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