Working 12 days straight

Skuxx

Hi everyone,

Hoping some of you guys here have some knowledge or experience around the following issue,

My company are trying to bring in a rostering system which would mean everyone would be rostered to work 12 days in a row, have 2 days off and back in again for another 12.

My understanding of the Working Time Act is that staff must have 1 day off in 7, or, in extra-ordinary circumstances, 2 in 12, but that should be avoided, and certainly not rostered.

Our current situation is work Monday to Friday and all weekends are voluntary. They are bringing this in because they are having problems getting enough volunteers to work weekends.

Does anoyone know is such a system legal?

Stheno

Skuxx wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Hoping some of you guys here have some knowledge or experience around the following issue,

My company are trying to bring in a rostering system which would mean everyone would be rostered to work 12 days in a row, have 2 days off and back in again for another 12.

My understanding of the Working Time Act is that staff must have 1 day off in 7, or, in extra-ordinary circumstances, 2 in 12, but that should be avoided, and certainly not rostered.

Our current situation is work Monday to Friday and all weekends are voluntary. They are bringing this in because they are having problems getting enough volunteers to work weekends.

Does anoyone know is such a system legal?

The workiing time act averages out over twelve days.

Now out of curiousity, are you going to be on M-F with on call for Sat/Sun? then M-F again?

Skuxx

Stheno wrote: »

The workiing time act averages out over twelve days.

Now out of curiousity, are you going to be on M-F with on call for Sat/Sun? then M-F again?

Yes exactly, they want us to work Monday-Friday, straight through the weekend and then Monday-Friday again, with following weekend off!

Stheno

Skuxx wrote: »

Yes exactly, they want us to work Monday-Friday, straight through the weekend and then Monday-Friday again, with following weekend off!

Read my question again, are you actually working the weekend or are you on call?

Skuxx

Stheno wrote: »

Read my question again, are you actually working the weekend or are you on call?

No, not on call, actually working!

Stheno

Hmm thats a toughie, as it's averaged over four months.

So four months is 121.7 days, which is 17.38 weeks.

So over that time, you'd do approx. 9 weeks of 7 days a week, and 8 days of five days a week, how many hours a day do you work?

It also doesn't include annual leave or sick days, so that may bring the average, which is the important number down to less than 48 hours per week.

And are you being paid overtime for the weekend working?

KingBrian2

12 days on the track working is a killer you need to seriously consider joining a union.

Stheno

KingBrian2 wrote: »

12 days on the track working is a killer you need to seriously consider joining a union.

It's not illegal though according to citizens information

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment_rights_and_conditions/hours_of_work/rest_periods_and_breaks.html

(a) You are entitled to 11 consecutive hours rest in any period of 24 hours. In addition you should get 24 consecutive hours rest in any period of 7 days and this should normally follow on from one of the 11-hour rest periods already mentioned, or

(b) As an alternative your employer can give you two 24-hour rest periods in the week that follows one in which you did not get the entitlement described in (a) above.

So getting the two days off the following weekend is fine according to Citizens information.

kazamo

Are they putting this in writing ?