Anyone good with Rotas?

[TheDutchHouse]

Getting in a muddle with these new shift patterns rota I need to draw up. Any one see an easy solution I'd be grateful.

Person A works five days a week
Person B works 3 days a week
Person C works 2 days a week

All three need to work over the whole seven days with an even share of weekends. Mondays need to be covered by A or B .

Person A likes Mondays and Tuesdays but is easy with rota as long as doesn't work more than five days in a row.

Person B doesn't mind Mondays but doesn't like Tuesdays

Person C is totally flexible but I believe it would be unfair on him to do more weekends than other two.

My ideal would be all three do a whole weekend once every three weeks.

Presumably A works twice as many weekends as C?

Sorry should of said that person C has been taken on board to help out with weekend and occasional cover during week for persons A days off.

At the moment persons A and B alternate the weekends .

I would do B & C as a job share tbh

My ideal would be all three do a whole weekend once every three weeks.

That would obviously not be fair. Person A should do 50% of the weekend cover, B do 30% and C do 20%.

To do otherwise is to treat the part-time people unfavourably, and that's not a good idea.

Are they paid a premium for weekend work, or do they just need to accept weekend-working as part of their normal weekly hours?

Weekend work is part of their contract

In a week-long period, you have 10 days worked between them. So that's 3 days with 2 people at work, and 4 days with just one person at work. Can you identify the 3 days where it would be most beneficial to have 2 people working?

I agree with the pp that B and C should be treated as jobshare.

What’s the actual requirement for shifts? Is it lone working, do you need to double up on specific days?

If person C was actually employed as weekend cover, then that’s their working pattern, so they can be available for every Saturday and Sunday? Don’t think of it as a punishment, that’s what a lot of people would want if they have childcare/other employment.

Yes, I agree with this.

OP, if person C was recruited to do the weekends, the simplest rota would be person A Monday to Friday, person C Saturday and Sunday, person 3 on the 3 busiest days to double up the cover.

However, if person C was recruited on the basis that they'd cover their share of the weekends, then you're in a bit more of a pickle.

You say that person A works 5 days a week but doesn't want to work more than 5 days in a row. The only way to achieve that is a fixed 5 on, 2 off pattern, eg Mon-Fri. To roll their rota and include some weekend working would inevitably mean sometimes working more than 5 days in a row.

Team of 3 here. I do rotas

One full weekend in, one full weekend off, one Saturday. It does depend if you need 2 in on Saturday though, otherwise you just do a rolling 3 week rota for the weekend