To tell them to F*** off and quit before the Christmas break?

What ever you do make sure it’s your last year working for them .

If you leave without another job you will be down a salary.

Why should they get out of paying you and make your life more difficult, when they’ve already made it difficult enough.

Apply for other jobs and leave asap but I wouldn’t just quit.
If you’ve lasted this long, then you can last a few more weeks.

Once you have a new job you can always steal some of the other staff by recommending them to your new employers if vacancies come up.

No, I wouldn't. As pp said, I'd refuse, let them sack me and take them to tribunal for unfair dismissal. It costs you nothing, often companies settle because its cheaper than fighting the case, so you could get a pay out. More importantly though its a wake up call that they can't treat people like that and go unchallenged.

I just would not have it ifake.life as difficult as possible tell them you will seek legal advice from the appropriate employment law solicitors.
No one is above the law,some employers just try it on cos often the threat is enough to scare ppl into doing things they can't actually get away with . Stand your ground and rock the boat and leave a paper trail,,question everything in writing .
Employees have lots of rights they often just don't enforce the it are fully aware of them .

100pc this. Your contract does not cover attendance at put of hours charity events and I am sure the charity would be appalled too to hear this.
I'd definitely just write back and say "thank you for notifying us of an out of hours charity event that we can attend. As I am sure you are aware, attendance at charity event is not part of my contractual duties and therefore I cannot be subject to a disciplinary procedure for non attendance. I wish you the best for the event but I will not be attending."

If they write back and say you must attend then you write back and say "I'd be grateful if you could outline precisely where in the contract of employment it says I must attend out of hours charity events. I am sure the charity themselves would only want voluntary attendance at such an event rather than people subject to threats of disciplinary procedures. If you proceed with a disciplinary then I will be taking this further via ACAS" or something to this effect.

I'd also let your colleagues know too.

Email them and say you can’t go because of prior commitments and if they fire you then take them to the cleaners

Explain you already have plans. If they threaten you with disciplinary, explain you are able to save them the bother, as you resign. Call their bluff and then New Year, New Job. Good luck OP.

Oh, and if you all follow the same line, what can they do about it?

Don’t apologise!

Because it's a buyer's market. Just a few years ago it was companies struggling to find people (seller's market). Now it's people struggling to find work (buyer's market). This means companies can treat people like crap because for every person who walks away, another person desperately seeking work will be taken on straight away.

Buying labour and selling labour. Labour is in plentiful supply right now, so no problem with replacing workers.

I didnt call him a boyfriend to be passive aggressive. Partner/boyfriend/husband is irrelevant. Its just that leaving without a job to go to might cause financial difficulty.

If she is on a low wage, then being without work for a few months might cause severe financial hardship.

Benefits are not an option if you've given up a job. I would also worry that the sort of employer who treats staff like this might cause a problem when it comes to references. Slow to provide them, holding up a new job.

Not everyone is in position to be without a wage for a few months, I know im not. And over the bank holidays, DBS checks might be slow to come back etc.

I would say you have commitments tomorrow and you cannot do it. I would urge your colleagues not to go either. They can hardly sack you all.

Wow! making you work on a Saturday when it's your day off and threatening you with the sack if you don't is completely unacceptable. I would go with what your DH says - don't turn up and if they fire you so be it. Get another job in the new year whatever happens.

You could try "quiet quitting" (including not going in tomorrow) until you've found a new job. If it were me I might make the odd comment to parents as well so word gets around, but I quite like shit-stirring when I've been mistreated.

Oooh, this reminds me of the year we booked xmas dinner on xmas day at a local pub. When we arrived it was absolute chaos. Table wasn't free for us yet, other fed up families stood around with no tables available, angry customers still waiting to be served, angry customers who had finally been served after a ridiculously long wait but the food was cold/burnt/under-done/things missing etc. A couple of stressed and hassled waitresses running around like headless chickens.

It was the worst xmas dinner.

Turned out that the pub had just been bought by a chain and had told loads of the waiting staff that they HAD to work xmas day regardless of whether they'd booked it off or not, and for their normal NMW rate. If they didn't they'd be up for disciplinary action.

They all made a pact to just not turn up for work that day. Or ever again. Left them right in the shit. Hundreds of bad reviews were left by customers on TripAdvisor, and word of mouth round the village etc.

We had a terrible xmas day, but absolutely could not blame the staff for doing what they did. WTF thinks its ok to treat hard working individuals so disgustingly?!

Report to ACAS.

My guess is that if you rang any childcare or care agency, they will be able to offer you work almost straight away. I’m going against most people here, but leaving the job (due to ‘wanting a better opportunity’ rather than ‘crappy working conditions’) looks better than getting sacked for any future employers. I found this out the hard way!

Just go home when you're scheduled to home. If they say anything, tell them you're contacting ACAS and keep walking.

This - let them try to sack you all if none of you turn up.

Do not attend the event.

if they attempt to discipline you, contact ACAS, this is a free service and you don’t need to be a member of any union to use this service.

Keep anything sent to you in writing as evidence. Document any conversation had with you in an email.

Employers cannot hire and fire employees at will. You have all the cards here, do not be intimidated.

And you won’t be working your notice due to them breaching your contract by expecting you to work outside of your contracted hours for no pay @icyblast

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So like others, I suggest that you don't quite call their bluff... and then if they do sack you, then you can go down the legal route for unfair dismissal. Email them first and let them know you won't be attending due to Saturday not being a contracted work day and then leave it there and then it's up to them and all the legal responsibility for well acting illegally.

Hand in your notice but remember you’ll need a reference from them for your next employer so be careful what you give for your reason for leaving and “politely” tell them that you already have plans for tomorrow.

Just dont go and let them deal with it.

Your daughter deserves a medal.I know she didn’t do it for that but fucking well done to her x

We all work Monday to Friday (that’s what our contracts say) and won’t be paid for our time tomorrow. Plus, it’s the last weekend before Christmas, so naturally, most of us have plans or are going away. They only told us on Tuesday that we were expected to attend. One of my colleagues only started 2 weeks ago (already had plans for the weekend), and while our manager let her off, she basically got a warning and was told not to let it happen again. Seriously? It’s her day off!

They sound batshit.

Be careful - they could be crazy enough to try and sack you after you give your resignation, which is possible. It would be illegal if they did that out of spite, but they might just do it anyway.