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crystallad
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Does anyone know if there is any law that says your legaly entitled to 2 cosecutive days off a week or in a month?.
Ive worked retail all my life which means a day off in the week ,work every Saturday and work every other Sunday. I enjoy my job but now have a 6 year old boy and want to spend more time with him which includes football and cricket at the weekends.
Does anyone know any favourable family laws to help get time off?
Ive worked retail all my life which means a day off in the week ,work every Saturday and work every other Sunday. I enjoy my job but now have a 6 year old boy and want to spend more time with him which includes football and cricket at the weekends.
Does anyone know any favourable family laws to help get time off?
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48 hours each fortnight
So 1 day every week
or 2 days every other week.
https://www.gov.uk/rest-breaks-work
google it its quite complicated and your employer can legally refuse
im also pretty sure its only a legal requirement if your child is under 6 or disabled, so you may have left it too late
no solution I am afraid but my sympathies
are you able to swap with colleagues?
Everyone is suppose to work on a Saturday but the motor trade has changed and all days are equally busy. Im going to ask about the flexy time to HR and say I dont believe it will hinder the business.
So then no one got, like I said to them it's not my problem you have kids, we all have to do our share, so my advice is be fair with colleagues if swapping shifts and bear in mind they're doing you a favour! Good luck!
Do you work for Halfords?
Employees who care for a child or adult have the legal right to request flexible working. This is known as ‘making a statutory application’.
The employer can turn down requests if they have a good business reason.
https://www.gov.uk/flexible-working/overview
As it states its only a request and the employer can turn it down.
As you can probably understand, everyone else working there pretty much wants the same thing so most of the time these kinds of situations are best worked out with your co-workers and not left to management. really needs to be some give and take between everyone.
But they don't have to give you these hours somewhere else, so you will be these hours down
Be careful they don't opt you out of a job. ;-)
Retailers are cutting staff hours so imo you put yourself at risk of being out the door eventually.
Hope it works out for you. I’d be interested to hear back on your employers response to you opting out on Sundays. I worked in retail many years ago and one of the many reasons I swore I would never go back to it was because of the totally inflexible working hours. Like you back then it was 6 days a week (well in theory 5 and a half as Wednesday was a half day although it never amounted anywhere near to a half day off). You never got two days off together. We had all sorts of other rules as well, no time off in the summer months, or near Christmas or Easter etc.
There were a few enlightened employers around who used to rota their staff so they all got at least some weekends off but not many.
As regards to the flexible working request that will be interesting too. It never seems to make a lot of sense to me in that your only “right” is to ask for it. You have no “right” to actually get it. It’s a difficult one because in most cases granting such a request usually means someone else has to work instead. That can cause a lot of resentment. As another poster has said you tend to end up with one group getting all the concessions and the other always group getting the rough end of the stick. I think the rules have recently changed so that all employees can now ask for flexible working instead of just those with families etc.
From your OP, it read to me that you want weekends off rather than 2 consecutive days off. Your above post confirms it. Would you be happy with Tuesday and Wednesday off?
Retail is a business that runs 7 days a week, if you want weekends off, it'd be better to get a job in a different industry or in shop that opens Mon-Fri.
Could you change shifts with a colleague or ask the manager if the rota could rotate staff on weekends so that you and any others that want the odd Saturday off could? So that all of you have say one Saturday in every 3 off.
Yes, it is true in retail you can opt out of Sunday's. It's not a law I agree with, but those working in retail are perfectly entitled to use the law to get out of working on a Sunday.
Here's a link to the opt out of Sunday working law (only if in retail), so that you can quote/reference, if needed - https://www.gov.uk/sunday-working
Do you have a minimum amount of hours in your contract? Because if not then you may find that after doing this you may not be given any hours. If you have a minimum hours set though then you should be ok
I would guess its because it means the employer has to consider the request. If you didn'thave the right to ask the employer wwouldn't have to consider it. As the employer can just say no anyway its all a bit pointless.
It says I should work a 45 hour week but says nothing at all about paid or not lunch breaks.
9-6 x 5 = 45 paid lunch
9-6 x 5 =42.5 non paid lunch
Then im asked to work every other Sunday for 6 hours.
Then the big one! im opting out of sundays. I will be mr unpopular at work but the law is there to help me. I wasnt born just to work!
Is where you work classed as a shop, as that is what the Sunday working laws are about, shop & betting shop employees...I know you said it was retail, but you also mentioned the motor trade.
But is it classed as shop work, which the Sunday working laws state, doesn't mention retail, only shop & betting shop.