P/T hours to get 1 in 4 saturday

[peterloo]

The agreed menu of options has duty sets with saturday only part timers!

If the plan is for Saturday only Part Timers (as in not working any other day) then nothing wrong in that as the people opting for it know that they are working only on Saturday so no unfairness either implied or otherwise.

If however, only 5 day Part timers work Saturdays and 5 day FTimers don't then that is unfair in my opinion and would leave RM open to complaint over failure to comply with employment legislation - but as I say that only an opinion and I may well be wrong.

The below is an exert from the menu of options. We have a set up where the small contracts ie 22.5 contracts always work sat/mon/tues everyweek and always have wed/thur/fri as days off the blokes like em now because they are the light days and set days. We also have 1 in 4 sets for part timers

Part Time Colleagues
It should be noted that there maybe opportunities for existing part time employees to work fewer days, whilst maintaining their existing contracted hours, to support the new innovative attendance patterns. For example in option four, within this pack, it may be possible for some existing part time employees to convert their attendance to a regular Friday, Saturday, Monday attendance, working fewer days albeit for longer hours.

You would probably need the advice of an employment lawyer but at first glance that would probably be okay as they are working the same hours and getting 3 days running off a week, the other staff getting 2. I would be happier if it was volunteers only, but as I say, at first glance and with no legal training, if it was accepted by the members of the Unit, I don't think it would fall foul of the "fairness" legislation.

It was accepted by a show of hands vote. It actually is not really a f/t p/t issue because our 30 hour lads n lasses have got the best deal of the whole office. 1 in 3s and not working all the heavy days.