Long and short duty pattern

maximus12 · Post by **maximus12** » 22 Mar 2018, 19:18

How does the long and short duty pattern work?

Some weeks depending on which day off you have, you end up working more than 39 hours from what I can tell.

Bahia Feliz · Post by **Bahia Feliz** » 22 Mar 2018, 19:22

It will even itself out over a 6 week period if you are on a rolling day off (allegedly)

Post by **97gaz** » 23 Mar 2018, 09:58

Alexei · Post by **Alexei** » 23 Mar 2018, 10:50

97gaz wrote:
maximus12 wrote:How does the long and short duty pattern work?

Some weeks depending on which day off you have, you end up working more than 39 hours from what I can tell.
Duty holders will have a pattern that evens itself out over the rota span.

If you're a reserve, it's quite possible to work more than 39 hours especially if your office has a shorter attendance pattern on a Tuesday and you're always given that day off!

Keep a record.

What would a reserve actually do with this record? Argue for certain days off?
I had a chat with a cover manager about days off, and he said you could get x amount of Tuesdays off in a row, but it would even out over the course of the year ( same amount of other days in week nb, Saturdays ). My argument to that was it then becomes open to exploitation by the manager unless the reserve kept a written diary of sorts, so it would be easier to just stick with a rotation, as the former would cause arguments and possible grievances down the line, not to mention the ethical viewpoint of taking advantage of an employee.

maximus12 · Post by **maximus12** » 23 Mar 2018, 16:47

In my office reserves work 7 hours 48 minutes per day so they don't lose out because of day off. The hours don't seem to add up on the long and shorts though. I will need to look into it more.