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Never having saturdays off?

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BingBong
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Re: Never having saturdays off?

Post by BingBong »

varial wrote:Hello,

Just wondered what the situation is for me, im on a 25 hour tempary 3 month contract which has been extended... been employed for 6 months. I was told i will have a rotating day off and 1 in 6 saturdays off but since starting i have not had any saturdays off and my days off during the week are all over the place! Its starting to take its toll on me and not being able to plan ahead is driving me insane. I looked through my contract and theres nothing there about having days off.... asking my managers is useless as they tell me that because i dont have my own round they cant give me them.

I seem to be bending over backwords for them.... 45hour weeks because of overtime since P&L which is starting to wind me up! Not cutting off to help them out and going out on round till 5:30 as i dont know the area, once i didnt leave office till 11:30 as the frame was such nightmare to throw in. IM owed travel exspences, a days pay as i didnt get payed for a bank holiday, i didnt get payed for my training... the list goes on.

Going off track here anyway! Main question is about the 1 in 6 saturdays off? am i legally entitled to them?

Speaking of this. I always go to my union rep to get my Saturday off. Otherwise it would never happen. To be fair our union rep is bang on it when it comes to this. We have alot of people go sick Saturdays so the manager is starting to realise.
Thanks in advance
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