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  • 28-03-2011 11:39pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I am contracted to work 39 hours per week, since I started the job I have worked 50 plus without extra pay as it was needed. I have asked for my hours to be reduced and have been told if I don't like it I can leave as they will get someone else to do it.

    I know no one can be made work more than 48 hours per week but does this still apply as I had been doing it before?

    I fear that if I insist on working my contracted hours they will find some way of getting rid of me. They did this with another girl before when she refused to work Saturdays as her contract stated Mon-Fri.
    The basically pulled her up for every infringment that they could find, even stooping as low as timing her toilet breaks and giving her a warning for it, giving her a warning for leaving early on Friday to attend a school sports day, (she had 50+ hours worked that week).
    Any help,
    Thanks


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    #2
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Get out of there as soon as you can. They will work you until you burnout and then sack you anyway.

    These people are scum bags.


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    #3
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    Get out quick, there's no hope. honestly.

    Your not there long enough to make a stand and try leave at you contracted time. If you do they will just fire you under your probation. Even if you do last the 6 months probation at 50 hrs a week, they will fire you because you questioned them.


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