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[Lincox]

Why should you give them 24 hours notice, anything can happen within that time. They should ask you 24 hours before whether you can do overtime.

[lala]

Why should you give them 24 hours notice, anything can happen within that time. They should ask you 24 hours before whether you can do overtime.

I agree. Thats what I thought it was as well till I read it.

[fishtank]

Fish, where have you read that you have to give 24 hours notice?

Sorry Lincox what i meant to say was that the procedure encourages management to draw up a list of members who have refused overtime regularly in the past and to change status from unavailable to available you have to give at least 24hrs notice.
What that means in theory is that anyone on the list is precluded from making a decision on the day and has to make the decision beforehand which is risky if you have childcare issues but the main point is if you have a list of members who don't do overtime it assumes that everyone not on the list does.
Members shouldn't have to explain to management on a daily basis why they won't work over their contracted hours...and they shouldn't be penalised or pressured if they don't.
There should be a list of members who want to work over,not the other way around.

There is a culture amongst management and even amongst some members that only working your contracted hours is somehow cheating the company,it's seen as weak and reinforced by meaningless management soundbites like "swings and roundabouts" and "giving us a dig out" and "going the extra mile" and it's even reinforced by the nonsense in your contract about expecting a degree of overtime.
Quite frankly...it's embarrassingly 1970's.