AIBU to this is unfair?!

9 replies

Impactedturtle1 · 24/07/2013 08:53

I am contracted to work 40hrs per week as a nursery nurse - most of the time I have to stay late because of ratio! Yesterday I was on a 7-4 shift and left at 5:35 so an extra 1.5hrs, which I didn't have a choice?! When this happens we are made to stay and I'm getting fed up of it.
Surely if they know this happens everyday they would put us onto 7-5 shifts ect?!

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welshfirsttimemummy · 24/07/2013 09:01

Do you get paid for the overtime? Is it in your contract to stay?

pianodoodle · 24/07/2013 09:01

It does sound like poor management but I really don't know as I'm self employed so not sure what the norm is!

I can at least say YANBU for feeling fed up to have to stay by the time a 9 hour shift finishes I'd be done in :(

CuppaSarah · 24/07/2013 10:19

That's pretty poor management. Every nursery I've been at looks at the children's hours and works out staffing around that, even if it means management have to make up ratios sometimes.

You better get paid for the extra hours, if not I'd be handing in my notice.

angelos02 · 24/07/2013 10:24

I'd leave at your scheduled time to leave. It is up to the managers to sort out the ratios.

Cherriesarelovely · 24/07/2013 10:51

That is unacceptable. It would never happen at the school where I work. Our HT is meticulous in making sure she doesn't take the mickey with people's hours and if she really needs them to stay for something she asks well in advance and pays overtime.

AnnoyedByAlfieBear · 24/07/2013 10:54

Normal at our place. Our contracts say 'overtime as and when required'.

Crinkle77 · 24/07/2013 10:58

I think it is unacceptable if it is happening on a regular basis. All depends if you are being paid for the extra time

livinginwonderland · 24/07/2013 11:09

Does it state in your contract that you have to work overtime? Lots of contracts will say "plus overtime as and when required". If it's not in your contract or you don't get paid extra, YANBU, but if it's in your contract, then YABU.

ConfusedPixie · 24/07/2013 12:13

I think it's to be expected of working in a nursery tbh, it's a huge PITA, but they are frequently understaffed and call on their staff to do overtime, it'll likely be in your contract that you are to do overtime as and when required, which if it is, you agreed to do it by accepting that contract. Being a childcare worker is a bitch sometimes :(

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