Forced change of day off

Bluenose · Post by **Bluenose** » 17 Jan 2018, 18:03

Can Royal Mail force individuals who are full time & have a set day off be made to change their day off ?

Post by **Judgee** » 17 Jan 2018, 18:41

Yes it's all under the "operational needs" get out clause where basically they can change what they like whenever they like. Although they do need to give you notice and I believe if you have plans that cannot be changed they should honour your original day off!

Sir Henry · Post by **Sir Henry** » 17 Jan 2018, 18:48

What reason are they giving you? Is it only YOUR day off that is being changed? What does your rep say?

Post by **POSTMAN** » 17 Jan 2018, 22:57

Bluenose previously posted this in a wrong forum...

Hello everyone, may I just ask a question?
Our office had a complete revision & repick of duties about six months ago. The DOM has now realised that duties with Saturdays off are hard to cover. The intention is to change staff with Saturdays off to offer them another day. Does anyone know if this DOM can do this ?

Bluenose · Post by **Bluenose** » 17 Jan 2018, 23:06

No it’s everone with a Saturday off as after a revision & repick the managers have realised that people who have chosen Saturday off want the day off and not work it on overtime thus they have trouble covering duties but surely Saturday is classed as a normal working day and it was the planning team that offered the number of Saturdays to choose from.

loverman shabba · Post by **loverman shabba** » 18 Jan 2018, 10:28

you are entitled to 1 in 4 or 1 in 6 saturdays off depending how your office works. he cant just decide that when it comes to your saturday off you cant have it thats total bolx

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 18 Jan 2018, 12:40

Bluenose wrote:No it’s everone with a Saturday off as after a revision & repick the managers have realised that people who have chosen Saturday off want the day off and not work it on overtime thus they have trouble covering duties but surely Saturday is classed as a normal working day and it was the planning team that offered the number of Saturdays to choose from.

Bluenose wrote:Can Royal Mail force individuals who are full time & have a set day off be made to change their day off ?

No, they can propose it to the Union who can ask the membership.

They could try to impose it but the rep has the Industrial Relations Framework to knock it back as far as to getting mediators in. The mediators at least on the CWU side would hopefully point out that it goes against the spirit of various agreements.