4 day week

ncit9933

Hi
We've been told we've to go on a 4 day a week.
We're trying to persuade them to let us do 5 days one week followed by 3 the following, in the hope that we can claim social for the short week?

If this is possible does it matter what days your off on the short week i.e. is there some rule where you have to be off 3 consecutive days.
That is, do you need to take the Thursday and Friday off rather than the Monday and Tuesday because the Saturday is counted at the end of the week

ncit9933

anyone any experience of this?

ghosttown

As I recall, you can work any 3 of the days, and doesn't have to the same 3 next time.

foundry

As far as I know you can only work 3 days every week, you can't work 5 one week 3 the other.

dlambirl

FYI - the social welfare working week (on the casual JSA slips) runs from Wednesday - Tuesday - your three days have to fall between this...

So does this mean if you worked Wednesday, Thursday & Friday one week and Monday & Tuesday the next - it means you've worked a full week and entitled to nothing???

alwaysadub

dlambirl wrote: »

FYI - the social welfare working week (on the casual JSA slips) runs from Wednesday - Tuesday - your three days have to fall between this...

So does this mean if you worked Wednesday, Thursday & Friday one week and Monday & Tuesday the next - it means you've worked a full week and entitled to nothing???

That's the exact way i used to work my 3 day week-work Wed,Thurs, Fri and the following Mon, Tue, Wed. Then i'd be off Thurs, Friday of that week and Mon and Tue of the next. You're basically working week on week off that way.
You'll still get paid for the two days off. What they did originally with me was i'd get a full week from them every two weeks,you'd get nothing for the week you were workin,but a full week the week you weren't, but they changed it round and honestly i never got around to figuring it out how they calculated it, but you'd get 32.70 one week and 163.30 the next.
But you will definitely get paid for your two days not working one way or another!

ncit9933

So in my scenario, working Monday to Friday on week 1 and on week 2 taking Monday and Tuesday off, working Wednesday to Friday.

I should be able to claim for the 2 days??

dlambirl

Yes - you'll be putting down on your slip for not working Monday, Tuesday & Saturday

ncit9933

they don't have to be consecutive days then?

foundry

no def not