carryfast-yeti:
we signed a ‘any 5 from 7’ contract 10 years ago…still just work mon-fri every week. if you work o/t Saturday …that’s a 6th shift paid at time and a half
I have enquired about jobs that say ‘any 5 in 7’ before and found that it’s actually a fixed shift.
Is it too much to ask to have a job advert that says:
Would save everybody a lot of time!
rob22888:
Is it too much to ask to have a job advert that says:
- What the shift is
- What the actual start times are
- What the rate is
- What you will be doing
Would save everybody a lot of time!
There are loads of unnattractive jobs out there titled as ‘Driver’.Which are anything but in which they’ve obviously looked for some laughably tenuous link with driving being required.Sometimes just even commuting between the job and home.
Hours are similar all seemingly based on the same MO of minimising the amount of those employed and maximising the hours and days required by the few they take on.
They’ll think nothing of trying to pass off 6 am start 6 pm finish 6 days per week as a 40 hour per week job when it’s obvious that they are lying.
rob22888:
carryfast-yeti:
we signed a ‘any 5 from 7’ contract 10 years ago…still just work mon-fri every week. if you work o/t Saturday …that’s a 6th shift paid at time and a halfI have enquired about jobs that say ‘any 5 in 7’ before and found that it’s actually a fixed shift.
Is it too much to ask to have a job advert that says:
- What the shift is
- What the actual start times are
- What the rate is
- What you will be doing
Would save everybody a lot of time!
Agree. I think it is this thing where firms want to be able to shift people about, different start times, longer hours on some days etc. - without their drivers saying “My contract isn’t for working saturdays/shifts over 10 hours/6th shifts”…
They are writing “flexibility” into everyone’s contract as standard, but are barely paying the odds FOR that flexibility, which suggests that it is being totally taken for granted.
…Then the firm expects people to work a job “to the letter” No going off-route, taking too long, daring to ask for family-friendly shifts, etc. - OK when it suits them I suppose.
