Working with a broken wrist

[Hudso59]

I broke my wrist a couple of weeks back. I work in a school with a contract for my mid-day supervisors job. I also do breakfast and after school clubs, and this is the one I do the most hours for., so get more pay for. However, I do not have a contract for this job and therefore do not have sick pay, holiday pay or entitlement. I am now struggling somewhat because I CANNOT afford to go off sick! The head mistress says I can work with a sling on, and here's the but, at lunchtime she has taken me off the playground (for my safety, apparently) and has put me in the medical room! Although I am paediatric first aid trained, I am not coping too well in there! Yes I belong to a union and here's another but; our union rep is the office manager and PA to the head!! WHAT CAN I DO??

What would you want a union to do for you? If you can't afford to go off sick, as your contract states you get no pay, then you have to work. Reasonable adjustment states that you have been given an alternative which is safer (quite rightly, if you fell in the playground you could be badly hurt). So actually, there really doesn't appear to be much a union could do I'm afraid.

Do they say you are not entitled to a contract? Are they trying to say you are self employed?