Annualised contract HR advice needed - no hours available !

[Lattissima5]

Can anyone help with some HR advice? I have an annualised contract with my employee and usually work 12 hours average shift work a week. They have recently employed a large number of new staff recently and there is suddenly almost no availability for shifts! Can they deduct the unworked hours from our salary given they are not providing sufficient availability? We are contracted to work a certain number of hours in the year, it is not a zero hours contract. Thanks for any advice!

Well you’ll have to wait until the end of the year as it covers the year rather than week / month

We are contracted to work a certain number of hours in the year,

and they will likely ramp it up during busy times so by the end of the year they have adhered with the contract

You are the employee btw

Do you have core hours in your contract?

How are they allocating shifts?

Shifts are allocated by either requesting directly on the day (never an issue before) or using a rota website where all availability is listed.

As there are two months with no availability showing they can’t just expect us to make that time up again as most of us have other jobs as well.

Our total hours are stated which average to 12 a w, in my contract 80% are weekday days, 10% weekday evenings and 10% weekends.

When you say it “equates to”

is that weekly calculation what you have calculated based on the yearly amount of hours
or actually stipulated in the contract?

It’s stipulated in the contract as a quarterly amount, as below:
“You will be required to work 106 daytime hours, 13 weekday evening hours, 13 weekend and evening hours and you can choose to work extra hours outside your normal hours of work.”

You can only see whether they haven’t adhered with contact at the end of a quarter