Can my boss make me work an extra day without paying me?

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I got an email today saying that I'd missed a mandatory study day last month. I hadn't known that I'd meant to be on it. We do them alternate years and I thought it wasn't my year so hadn't checked the list. My fault and I rang my manager and grovelled.

I work 3 days a week and the week I should have gone on a study day I worked my normal 3 shifts. So its not as if I just skived off the study day and stayed at home.

Manager says that I have to do a study day in the next month or two in my own time, unpaid. My initial reaction is to tell her to go whistle.

Can she legally make me do this?

Is there a study day in the next few months that coincides with a day you're working? I work p/t for the NHS, and if a mandatory training day (I don't have to do study days, but would imagine it's the same) comes up on a day that I'm not working or I have a meeting that is deemed more important then I simply wait. I wouldn't think she's got a leg to stand on tbh, esp as you didn't skive off as you say. Hopefully someone will be along soon with the legal standpoint. What did your HR dept say?

Its NHS I work for as well, so am guessing its the same mandatory study/training day. I work different days every week and there are plenty of days coming up that I could go on.

Its all internal as well so I don't even think its like she has to pay for a 2nd day. I wouldn't have thought that there's any cost to her budget.

I'm going to ring HR tommorow and possibly go and see the matron as well.

If its compulsary you should be paid - go to HR.

I work for the NHS and this is definately the case in my trust.