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A new employee starting work with a multiple retailer had this in her contract;
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This company regards every day of the year and from 8am to 8pm as being normal working time for which employees are paid at the same basic rate. i.e. we take no notice whatever of Saturdays, Sundays, Bank / public holidays or evenings and do not consider them as being any different than any other time. The only exception at present is Christmas Day and Easter Day but if the government frees these from restriction, they will be treated the same.
The pay rates are national Minimum Wage for all time which is done on a shift work bases.
As we are in a holiday area, no store assistant may take their holidays on the week following Easter, on the Spring Bank Holiday week, during the last week in July. During the whole of August, and between the first whole week in December until after New Year's Day.
Any employee speaking out about this policy or speaking out against Sunday or weekend or bank holiday trading will be subjected to discipline and may face dismissal.
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Surely in this day and age when even the doctors have 'Out of Hours' this cannot be legal? Is there no automatic right to enhanced payment for evenings, Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays?
The company are real slave-drivers. If the CCTV spots a checkout queue below three people they close down a checkout position thereby forcing the checkout staff to work full pelt non-stop. We have to face the abusive comments about being kept waiting but it is not our fault. Forcing people to queue is company policy.
(Sent on behalf of a young employee to a voluntary youth worker).
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This company regards every day of the year and from 8am to 8pm as being normal working time for which employees are paid at the same basic rate. i.e. we take no notice whatever of Saturdays, Sundays, Bank / public holidays or evenings and do not consider them as being any different than any other time. The only exception at present is Christmas Day and Easter Day but if the government frees these from restriction, they will be treated the same.
The pay rates are national Minimum Wage for all time which is done on a shift work bases.
As we are in a holiday area, no store assistant may take their holidays on the week following Easter, on the Spring Bank Holiday week, during the last week in July. During the whole of August, and between the first whole week in December until after New Year's Day.
Any employee speaking out about this policy or speaking out against Sunday or weekend or bank holiday trading will be subjected to discipline and may face dismissal.
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Surely in this day and age when even the doctors have 'Out of Hours' this cannot be legal? Is there no automatic right to enhanced payment for evenings, Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays?
The company are real slave-drivers. If the CCTV spots a checkout queue below three people they close down a checkout position thereby forcing the checkout staff to work full pelt non-stop. We have to face the abusive comments about being kept waiting but it is not our fault. Forcing people to queue is company policy.
(Sent on behalf of a young employee to a voluntary youth worker).
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