25 hour contract, Overtime every week ..

[POSTMAN]

[Luke Skywalker]

Get ure rep to take some action or get the rep out, there are ways and means. Rm just want people on low hour contracts so that they can increase the hours when it's busy (Christmas) and decrease them when it's not (right about now).

[rambo1]

We have a good few part timers on 25hr contracts that have been working pretty much full time hours for over 2 years.

Problem is management just use the old 'operational needs' excuse as a reason not to offer full time contracts.

They could all get together and approach management as to why they haven't been offered Ft contracts, but won't as the threat is always there that they could just be dropped to their basic 25hrs per week and would then struggle.

We even have one part timer who has done a week at 5 hrs per day for 5 days, then the next week 3 days totaling 25hrs and has no idea what he's doing from one week to the next - which cannot be right.

Oh and our rep couldn't give a monkeys - probably because he was originally a part timer himself and has worked FT for years now (no idea if he has been made up tp FT or is still on PT contract). Loads his RM bike into the back of his shared van everyday and off he goes. HIs partner got back from delivery today at 2.40pm. He however was posting stuff on facebook from 1.30pm !

Offices in general, work on a fair % of 'zero hrs contract'. By that, I mean if everyone worked their contract hrs an took their day off, the mail would simply not all get out every day. The surplus hrs are not guaranteed to any individual so are therefore not paid in times of annual leave or sickness. Try pointing this out to the cwu and they just spout 'there are no zero hr contracts and never will be within royal mail'. Ok they're not called that but I reckon about 20% of the hrs our office needs to run, are not contracted hrs.... See my point.

[Johnozzy39]

How do you guys get mortgages ? I'm hoping to be starting soon 25 HR fixed contract I'm wondering will it be hard to get accepted ?

[datasaint]

How do you guys get mortgages ? I'm hoping to be starting soon 25 HR fixed contract I'm wondering will it be hard to get accepted ?

You'll get a mortgage just not as big as if you were FT.

[Johnozzy39]

Ok cheers buddy