Question for a friend
She currently works in retail, 20 hour contract at Work #1, and 20 hours at Work #2.
When hired at Work #1, she told them that she couldn't work weekends as Work #2 was set weekend hours - no problem they said, they'll work around it.
After a while, people didn't like it and started whinging because they never got weekends off like friend.. even though she was working another job so not 'off'. They asked her to provide proof of working for Work #2 which she did, which shut them up for a while.
She eventually moved to another branch in the same company and made clear to the manager of this branch that she could not work weekends - again absolutely fine, not needed as weekends already overstaffed. Been there since April, and now the area manager has just been to see her to ask why she can't work weekends and has told her that she has to provide wage slips for Work #2 and then he will authorise weekends off for a maximum of 3 months.
Can they do this? It's not like this was her main job and she has since taken on a weekend job which is now affecting her main one, it's the other way around. What does she do after 3 months and Work #1 start demanding she works weekends and she can't unless she quits Work #2 which she won't do as she actually earns more for 2 days work there than she does for 2 days work at Work #1, but there are no more hours to be had at Work #2 so she can't.
Hope that makes sense! Any help or advice would be appreciated
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NaiceNickname · 18/06/2015 14:27
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