nick2008:
Can’t see that as thought if they payed they had to count it. They should or he should have asked to reduced his hours to compensate and bring hours down.
Christmas I don’t get some people wanting to work 60a week then want paying for sitting at home
Being paid for it makes no difference to counting it for the WTD or not, POA doesn’t count but you get paid for that.
Companies try that excuse to avoid paying drivers when they’ve pushed them so they are over the average and need to bring it down.
He could sit at home for a couple of days on pay to bring the average down but the company seem to have selected days that will count as zero hours but won’t actually occur until much later in his holiday year to reduce it now.
You don’t know he wanted to work 60 hours a week, his average is 52 and its up to the company to monitor and control it so he averages 48 or less and if they mess up so they have to stand him down on pay that’s their problem. Why should he lose out?
It might come back in his favour later in the year when he is over and has no non statutory days left but that’s an unknown factor and at the moment he feels he has been shafted and is losing out.
I have no idea if the company can legally use non statutory days such as Bank Holudays that haven’t yet happened in this way; how would it work if he was to leave the company before they rolled round for instance?