Part time retail job and Christmas/New Year rotas

[mrsrhodgilbert]

Dd has a pt retail job whilst at university which she will be able to continue over the Christmas holidays because it’s within reasonable travel distance of home. It’s with a well known high street fashion store.

All staff have been told they are not allowed to request time off over the holiday period and the new maternity cover manager will allocate shifts for Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, probably very close to the time. In her previous job staff had to work one of these days but could opt for one or the other and swaps were allowed as long as there was cover.

Dd would like to join her home friends for a New Year event but can’t request the day and therefore book a train etc.

So I’m just wondering how other retail jobs work, I’m thinking stores with maybe 10 staff max rather than huge shops. How much notice is reasonable to expect for the holiday week?

We work both (we have nine members of staff) and cannot request days off over Christmas and new year weeks. We know our rotas a month in advance, though.

Thanks, I think if you know months in advance then you can plan around it. Rotas at the moment are being done less than a week ahead which makes it difficult to plan anything, I don’t know how normal that is for retail.

Different companies have different rules. It's not ideal to have very short notice of Christmas/New Year shifts, but it's yet another pitfall of working in retail.

I work in a small branch of a large high st company (7 members of staff), throughout the year we usually get our rotas on Friday for the following week, over Christmas we get them a further one week in advance and are allowed to swap shifts/double up to cover someone else if both parties are happy. So this year we'll probably get our rotas on the 14th but I already have an agreement with a colleague that I'll work Xmas Eve for her and she'll cover Boxing Day for me, gives us both an extra day with family.

I would just book it tbh and if she ends up in just call in sick. They don't give a shit about their staff where I used to work so I never felt guilty. My current job are really nice so I would just have a chat with my boss and if he could help me he would.

When I worked retail a year ago. U knew a month in advance if the boss was on the ball. But no holiday was allowed as it is the busier time of year