Changing of Shift Pattern & Holidays

megapixel

My brother works for a company that works does a form of the Continental shift pattern. They have given them 2 weeks notice to change to a days/evenings/nights shift pattern.

Q1. What is the typical shift allowance for this type of shift pattern?
(They have been offered 20%)

Q2. He has taken only a few days holidays to date and planned to his remaining balance in Nov. He would only have had to use a few days holidays to get 3 weeks off with the shift pattern as it was.
Now with going to D/E/N shift he has to dig into next years holidays.
All the others he works with have taken their holidays at various other times during 2018 taking advantage of the shift pattern.

So does he have a leg to stand on? He is getting penalized for not taking his holidays earlier in the year, now can't take the time he is owed.


Thanks for reading this.

Sir Ophiuchus

megapixel wrote: »

My brother works for a company that works does a form of the Continental shift pattern. They have given them 2 weeks notice to change to a days/evenings/nights shift pattern.

Q1. What is the typical shift allowance for this type of shift pattern?
(They have been offered 20%)

I took a look at the equivalent allowances in the public sector, and 20% looks pretty good. Nurses, for example, get a 1/6 basic pay allowance for unsociable hours (16.66%). People entirely on night duty get 25%. With those in mind, 20% seems fairly reasonable.

Q2. He has taken only a few days holidays to date and planned to his remaining balance in Nov. He would only have had to use a few days holidays to get 3 weeks off with the shift pattern as it was.
Now with going to D/E/N shift he has to dig into next years holidays.
All the others he works with have taken their holidays at various other times during 2018 taking advantage of the shift pattern.

So does he have a leg to stand on? He is getting penalized for not taking his holidays earlier in the year, now can't take the time he is owed.

If I'm reading you correctly, he still has the same number of days of annual leave, it's just that with the shifts changing he can't take advantage of the gaps between his normally rostered days to get a longer block of time 'off' work. Is that right? If so, that sucks for him, but I don't think he's losing out on anything he's actually entitled to.

If for some reason he's not actually being allowed to use his 2018 annual leave balance, then yes he probably does have grounds to follow up on.

cml387

It was up to your brother to plan his holidays. It's bad luck unfortunately.

megapixel

He has been on the shift pattern for the past 4 years. So the rug has been pulled from beneath him.