Can someone please explain the point of having a written statement of particulars (often referred to as a contract of employment) when it actually means nothing. ACAS and my union rep have both informed me that my contract can be rewritten and I can be given one weeks notice of the change. Basically I can like it or leave.
Why can they be allowed to do this? Surely it should be something negotiated between employers and employees?
I have just been told my hours are changing. Because I have not worked there for 26 weeks I can not apply for flexible working hours, and because I have been there less than one year, I can not claim for unfair or constructive dismissalicon.
I currently work on a 3 week rota, which incorporates day shifts (9am-5pm) and evening shifts (5pm-11pm with a sleep in til 7am, then from 7am you are on shift until 9am) These also include weekends. We currently work 2 evenings (and therefore 2 sleep in's) a week for 2 weeks, and one week where we just work day shifts. We also work 2 weekends, and have one weekend off in the 3 week rota.
Now, my hours are changing to this - 3 evenings a week (but only one of them where we sleep in) plus no weekends off.
This is going to have a serious impact on my family life. I am hardly going to have time to spend with my child. I did not agree to working over half my hours as unsocial hours! Im never going to be there in the day, all Im going to get is evenings and weekends (if we have 3 evenings with one sleep in a week thats 20 hours, plus a weekend is another 8 hours if we do one weekend day, which takes me to to 28, that only leaves me with one day shift in the week, or perhaps another weekend shift if im lucky ha)
My son is 5. He is at school! Im barely going to see him. Im absolutely livid. How can they justify this? There are 5 members of staff, and apparantly 2 have fixed hours (one just applied for flexible working hours and got them - changing her hours from 2 days 9-5, to 3 days 9.30-2.30) so that leaves me and 2 other memebers of staff to cover evenings, with 2 members of staff having to be on evening shifts (thats the reason why they are changing the hours).
The person who kicked up a stink about there only being one evening staff, is the other member of staff whoes hours cant be changed, and she only does one night a week! So its all fell on those of us who havent complained. We are suffering for someone elses complaint.
Im just fuming. Its effectively changing my job from working a rota system, to becoming evening and weekend staff.
I am lucky in that this is not my chosen profession (Ive actually just qualified as a midwife) but at the same time Ive got to work in this position for some time to come, as a midwife post is very hard to come by currently.
Help!

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