Nepotism at work, what can I do?!

[LetsBekindx]

Little short on ££ at the moment, overtime going at work. Manager put me down for the shifts I said I could do, this was over 2 weeks ago. Check the rota and she has taken me off and put her brother there instead!! (A lot of her family work within the company I think it’s unprofessional and they do get favoured a lot!) what can I do about this? No workplace policies on this subject funnily enough. On principle alone it’s really pissed me off!

I'd tell her she'd asked, your agreed to do it and have paid for childcare tgat you can't back-track on. Why has it been changed?

That’s the tact I was going to go with but she shouldn't be able to do it in the first place. So her brother can get the overtime wage. Even though I said I would cover it first. It’s not the first time she’s done this to other people.

Can you go to the manager over her? Or are they also family? Even if they are all staff need to be treated equally or on merit. Shifts were offered, she confirmed you had them. Tell them it's not acceptable to just take you off. No need to mention the brother by name. She needs to give you what she promised and you must confront her.
If others feel this way you could go in together to her boss?

I did speak to her this morning and she said she would change it but I’m doubtful. I won’t see her till Monday now so if it’s not changed I will confront her. There is a manager above who isn’t family who I will go to if this isn’t resolved. The others she has done it to will not confront her they have no back bone. I’m alone on this one which I’m ok with, just frustrating. When I spoke to her this morning she was rude and made me feel like a nuisance although this was all her doing. Infuriating!

Can you have a quiet five minutes with the manager above. Let them know that you don’t want to be difficult about this occurrence in particular, but you do want to let the company know that they will get less people offering to do over time in future if this is how overtime allocation is managed.

Can you take screenshots of the rota and the changes as evidence. As I bet if the brother didn’t turn up that it would be quickly changed back and you blamed for not coming to work!

band together with others and don’t sign up for overtime and make it difficult to cover.