Dropping down from full time to 30 hours.

magicw · Post by **magicw** » 09 Dec 2018, 08:16

Firstly this is totally my choice, I know it will be impossible/ difficult to return to full time hours in the future, so I m well aware this is my choice.

Some questions though, and would appreciate some advice if anyone else has done this or similar.

I can work out basic salary on 30 hours, About £377 before deductions.

Will my delivery supplement by Halved? Or calculated at pro rata of full time ?

My OT will kick in at 30 Hours?

Start time should be worked backwards Six Hours from Current Full time Duty Finishes?

Currently pay 3% POAL for 2 weeks additional leave. Have been paying this since start of the leave year and have one week remaining to take at the end of January 2019/ Have I already paid for that week and would therefore receive 38 hours holiday pay for it? I would I drop to 30 Hours holiday as soon as I change contract. How do they calculate how much leave ive paid for to date?

Obviously in April 19 I would change to 30 hours Holidays.

If I surrender 8 hours back to the company/ will the office profile still get to keep those 8 hours somewhere else, I m currently a full time Float and wouldn't want to see the office loose the hours.

Post by **fb1969** » 09 Dec 2018, 08:42

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Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 09 Dec 2018, 08:43

magicw wrote:Firstly this is totally my choice, I know it will be impossible/ difficult to return to full time hours in the future, so I m well aware this is my choice.

Some questions though, and would appreciate some advice if anyone else has done this or similar.

I can work out basic salary on 30 hours, About £377 before deductions.

Will my delivery supplement by Halved? Or calculated at pro rata of full time ?

My OT will kick in at 30 Hours?

Start time should be worked backwards Six Hours from Current Full time Duty Finishes?

Currently pay 3% POAL for 2 weeks additional leave. Have been paying this since start of the leave year and have one week remaining to take at the end of January 2019/ Have I already paid for that week and would therefore receive 38 hours holiday pay for it? I would I drop to 30 Hours holiday as soon as I change contract. How do they calculate how much leave ive paid for to date?

Obviously in April 19 I would change to 30 hours Holidays.

If I surrender 8 hours back to the company/ will the office profile still get to keep those 8 hours somewhere else, I m currently a full time Float and wouldn't want to see the office loose the hours.

1. Del Supp is pro rata.
2. SSPR will kick in at 30 hours - Overtime at 38 hrs.
3. No, it should be whatever your other 30 hour colleagues times are - or what your manager agrees - but your method is as good as any.
4. Leave including POAL is earned on an accrual basis. So you base it on the amount of leave year left and how many hours you work for each section. There is a roughly a 1/4 of the leave year left so your entitlement would be roughly 3/4 at 38 hours and 1/4 at 30 hours. (You haven't paid for all of your POAL as something is taken out for it every week).
5. That would be up to management if they use the 8 hours elsewhere, but you can't stipulate that they should.

lightningpostman · Post by **lightningpostman** » 09 Dec 2018, 10:53

how much you been offered for the buy down?

magicw · Post by **magicw** » 09 Dec 2018, 18:04

lightningpostman wrote:how much you been offered for the buy down?

Nothing! Just going to pick a duty that's 30 hours! I ve had a change in domestic circumstances that means starting before 0730 in the morning is going to be near on impossible.

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 09 Dec 2018, 18:22

In our DO two posties volunteered to drop down from full time to four full days. This works better as you don't have to come in and find the prep hasn't been completed. I understand this isn't possible for you given your change in domestic circumstances.
Regarding surrendering hours those eight hours should remain in the office budget. We employed an addition four day week postie to cover the hours not covered.

daveyeff · Post by **daveyeff** » 09 Dec 2018, 18:23

so if this option had not been available to you, then you would've had to leave I take it?

magicw · Post by **magicw** » 10 Dec 2018, 18:23

daveyeff wrote:so if this option had not been available to you, then you would've had to leave I take it?

It would be difficult to work my current contract. I would have to employ a childminder from 0730 to school drop off every morning, Then in September when my daughter starts secondary school that would not even cover it , as the bus she requires departs at 0730 in town a good 2 miles from our address. Sorry but I m not prepared to leave her un supervised to make a 2 mile journey into town at aged 11. Maybe in a few years time but not now.

In fact that wouldn't even cover it, as I would have to leave the house at 0600 and there is not a childminder in the World who would take your kid Early. ( Don't think its even legally possible )

I ve tried the Family Friendly route but our DOM wont even Scope it! I think he likes the idea of getting the hours back as he's inherited an office with too many indoor hours and he's doing everything he can to claw them back.

All the Vacant duties he's put up have suddenly dropped from Full time to only 30 hours! I ve asked the CWU rep where the hours have gone and he says last time they did a revision a lot of people got made up to full time and now theres too many hours on the IP.

maninred · Post by **maninred** » 10 Dec 2018, 19:54

lightningpostman wrote:how much you been offered for the buy down?