hey, what it is North Cheshire Hospitals has decided to change our working hours without notification, at the looks of things we owe the trust a possible 7.5 hrs every month which we think would make a 6 day working week, the Unions havent been involved, the staff havent been consulted, my question is this, where do we stand?
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Hiya Sol
They cannot change your working hours without consultation....but they will try!
Find out who/what started this initiative. Get all affected colleagues to contact their union reps. Find out if an Equalities Impact Assessment was performed and also what consultation was undertaken. (The Union will do this formally)
Each staff member affected needs to formally inform their line managers of their resistance to such changes without consultation.
Even if certain individuals are not with the union, the union will still want to act because they don't take kindly to alterations such as this without their involvement. (Public Sector only of course )"Although scalar fields are Lorentz scalars, they may transform nontrivially under other symmetries, such as flavour or isospin. For example, the pion is invariant under the restricted Lorentz group, but is an isospin triplet (meaning it transforms like a three component vector under the SU(2) isospin symmetry). Furthermore, it picks up a negative phase under parity inversion, so it transforms nontrivially under the full Lorentz group; such particles are called pseudoscalar rather than scalar. Most mesons are pseudoscalar particles." (finally explained to a captivated Celestine by Professor Brian Cox on Wednesday 27th June 2012 )
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Originally posted by keithposty View Postto change your working hours the employer would need to do a consultation period
why are the union not involved
why do you think you will owe the trust 7.5 hours
what are your contracted hours per week
Do you have the answers for him Solowka?
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well, the hours they empose are 07:00 - 14:30, 07:00 - 1600, 13:30 - 21:30, 21:00 - 07:00 and 16:00 - 00:00 we will have to do at least one of the odd shifts a week leading up to a deficiet of 7.5 hrs owed.
the staff were not involved, the unions didnt notify the staff despite the letter saying to the contry
our contracted hours are 37.5hrs per week (40 hrs including unpaid break)
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you need to be talking to your rep
changes can be done otherwise with 28 days notice
the options you will have are
1/ accept the changes
2/ do a grievance and work under protest
3/ resign and claim constructive dismissal
during the consultation period they have to justify why the changes are needed
political
economic
social
technological
have they given a reason for the change in hours
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they claimed it would improve service, but the faceless bureaucrat camew from a trust less busy than ours and it is a money saving exercise! 2 nurses have already resigned.
I think they gave us 3 weeks notice, got the email this week and the changes are due to change in the 2nd week of next month
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this is why the union need to be involved
they would demand to see how a restructure would benefit and not just an economy drive which would be justified
check back tomorrow as i feel this shift pattern may infringe on the working time directive unless you have opted out and ill have some more legislation for you
in a nutshell
they have to justify any change
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/balls-union...103443376.html
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has urged unions not to fall into what he calls the "Tory trap" by striking over public spending pension cuts. Mr Balls claimed ministers were deliberately trying to provoke the unions into industrial action so they could blame them for the failure of the Government's economic strategy.
Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Mr Balls warned it was not in the unions' interests to engage in mass strikes.
He said the country did not want to see a return to the "division and confrontation" of the 1980s.
"From David Cameron down, Ministers are saying to the trade unions: 'Bring it on'. Like in the 1980s, they seem to be spoiling for a fight, goading the unions and trying to provoke strikes," he wrote........................
(Mainly re pensions, but to do with cuts overall)Last edited by charitynjw; 20th June 2011, 07:59:AM.CAVEAT LECTOR
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I was going to bring up WTD. Basically all necessary staff that incl hospitals (chefs, and other hospitality workers also fall into this catagory) are excluded from the WTD which means you work as and when the business dictates.
You will have signed this waiver within your contract check I bet its there... Every nurse and doctor and emergency crew I know are opted out of the WTD.
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If You Opt Out Of The Wtd Then You Are Only Permitted By Law To A Max 70 Hour Week
You Have To Have A 10 Hour Break Between Shifts
11 Hours If A Driver And A 24 Hour Break Once A Week
The Only Exception Is If You Do Long And Shorts Shift Patterns or contenental
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