Fairness/contracted hrs

[harryandmarv]

I’ll try & keep this as brief as I can & word it so it’s not outing! I work with around several others, we all do the same job, same hours.

Then covid & we were all on reduced hours, the same. Then for the last seven/eight months now, there’s been myself and one other that has been working our full contracted hours, the others haven’t & we’re all still getting paid the same.

I did raise this with our manager a few months ago but she shrugged her shoulders and basically said ‘I know but’. It’s not fair, I know this, but is it something I just need to suck it up or raise again?

Maybe negotiate with the manager that you can take time off while the others catch up on hours worked?

The fact you are needed for your full hours, irrespective of what's happening with other staff, is a better outcome from a job security perspective. If they shed jobs they're less likely to do so for the roles where the staff are fully occupied and productive. You are in a less vulnerable position than those whose hours have been cut. Maybe your colleagues furloughed, but in any case I wouldn't feel hard done- by or envious of their situation.

= have been furloughed

No one is being furloughed. I can’t explain exactly where or what we do as it’s outing. We’ll all get paid the same & that’s not changed, regardless whether we have being doing our full contracted hours or not.

This could go on for several more months. We are placed in our own areas if you like & it’s just how it’s fell, only I’ve been working across 3 areas at some point to help others, whist others have only their area & thus working a reduced shift.

It is begging to really bug me. But at the same time I feel petty for saying anything as I know I’m lucky to be still working.

At a time like this, ask yourself whether you'd rather those people had their wages docked through no fault of their own, or whether the company is paying them sufficient to feed their family and pay their rent. It really is as simple as that. Life isn't fair I'm afraid.

They sound like a decent employer to keep paying those people for doing fewer hours to keep them in employment.

Hopefully this horrible pandemic will be under control soon and normal rules can resume.

Of course I wouldn’t want their wages docked, I wouldn’t want that for anybody & I am 100% grateful for us all to still be working. In the grand scheme of things, it really isn’t that important, just unfair, it’s just the way things have fallen & because of how we are placed there isn’t no room for manoeuvre so I’m just going to look at it from that perspective now.