I work in catering and have been furloughed since lockdown was announced. I am desperate to get back to work as I'm so fed up of sitting at home and need to get earning money again.
My workplace was pretty good to furlough me in fairness. I had only been working there 6 weeks when they had to close and had not gotten a contract yet as they told me I would get one when my probation period finished. Probation period was to be 3 months. Because I was furloughed only 6 weeks in I still haven't technically completely my probation. I was told that my furlough would be based on a hours of 36pw even though I actually did 40+. Of course with no contract I couldn't really contest this and I was just happy to be getting any money from them.
Pay rate was supposed to be NMW until probation completed when it would go up to £9ph. At the time MW was (I think) £8.21 but obviously it's now increased to £8.80ish so my proposed 'wage increase' is now virtually none. In addition, the place has had extensive building work done during our closure so is now double the size. We have a completely new menu, a new kitchen team and they have cut staff numbers dramatically so they basically want to change the whole way they operate. They also want us to make everything from scratch and prepare everything ourselves in order to cut costs. This all means of course that my workload is going to increase a huge amount. I've also been asked to 'multitask', as in work in other areas when needed so I'll effectively be doing 2 different jobs. The job description has changed a lot from when I started.
I'm no longer happy to do all this work for minimum wage, even to the end of my probation period as I feel this is a bit of a piss take for a skilled and qualified member of staff to have to do such a huge amount and cover other people's positions too. Wibu to ask for more money now that the job has changed?