Bust up with the manager

[M786]

Ok I work at KFC, it's a part time job I do to help me pay my bills and food and complete my degree at the same time. I've been too lazy to find a new job. But anyways, the manager doesn't like me as she sees me as a threat. All the other foreign workers are scared of her because she bullies them and threatens them saying if they don't do the days and hours she gives she'll sack them. The foreign workers are vulnerable. They've got rent to pay, family and kids to support so they heavily depend on this job. However, I know my rights very well and have a pretty decent knowledge of employment law as I've studied it in Accountancy and I research a lot. So when she tries threatening me saying she'll sack me for not doing certain days, I turn round and say to her 'I dare you to sack me now because I know you can never sack me'. And also I persuade all the other staff to stand up to her and not get bullied.
But anyway, I had a massive argument with her which resulted in me getting sent home. She kept asking me through text if I will continue to work at KFC or not. She just wanted a no so she could use that to terminate my contract. However I said I will let her know next week.
My contracted hours are 40 per week, I can't do 40, maximum I can do is 16 hours due to my studies. I want to know is there anyway she could end up changing my contract to lesser hours or do I have to work 40 hours if she gives me them? Because I've been working 20 past few weeks and she's doing anything she can to get rid of me. So I'm wondering is it possible for me to do less than my contracted hours because my manager and me never knew what my actual contracted hours were until we had a bust up and I requested to see my contract.
Also she came recently, I was employed by a different manager who left after half a year after I joined.

[enquirer]

Re: Bust up with the manager

My contracted hours are 40 per week, I can't do 40, maximum I can do is 16 hours due to my studies. I want to know is there anyway she could end up changing my contract to lesser hours or do I have to work 40 hours if she gives me them?

So I'm wondering is it possible for me to do less than my contracted hours because my manager and me never knew what my actual contracted hours were until we had a bust up and I requested to see my contract.

Surely you signed something when you started? (You did read it, didn't you?). If you did, and it says 40 hours, then you may be in difficulty.

That said, as you have been working less (for how long? Since the beginning? Have you ever worked 40 hours regularly?), there is an argument that you have been permitted to vary your hours.

Also she came recently, I was employed by a different manager who left after half a year after I joined.

The usual - a pathetic nobody who now thinks that they are a somebody.

You might consider threatening her with a formal complaint of bullying and harrassment. You might also make it clear that you will pursue the matter if unlawfully dismissed. This would do little to enhance her 'career' prospects.