Offering full-time contracts to people below me in seniority before me?!

[allyg21]

So here's my story....

I have been working as a 21 hour permanent part-time employee in the same job for almost 7 years. In 2006 I and any other part time worker at the time had the opportunity to work an "upgrade" - essentially this meant working a 37 and a half hour week every week, but as it wasn't officially a full-time contract you knew that the company could take you off this rate anytime, and you would return to working from your part-time roster.

Fair enough.

So for over a year I was working an upgrade like this and there came a point when I preferred to return to my part-time hours and perhaps work one or two nights a week overtime instead, which is what I did.

So here's the problem....

Anyone who was working on the upgrade were receiving a higher rate of pay then the actual employees on a full-time contract. So my job announced now that anyone still working on the upgrade for over a year are being given the choice of returning to their part-time 21 hour contract, or receiving an offcial full-time contract since it was too expensive to continue paying out the upgrade rate.

Unfortunately since I am not currently working on the upgrade I was not offered a full-time contract even though I did work it for over a year. This also means that workers who joined years after me are being offered a full-time job before me just because they happened to be on the upgrade currently.

I would like to know if I have any right to persue this as I would like to work full-time properly with a contract and if any more information is needed I will post it up

 

[Purple]

Let me get this straight, you choose to move from short hours to not so short hours because it suited you and then you chose to move back to the shorter hours again, again because it suited you.
Now those who worked the not-so-short hours are being offered those hours as part of a full time contract.
You aren’t working those hours because it suits you to work shorter hours.
Are you looking for the longer hours even though up until now you didn’t want to work them?

Unless your boss is a telepath I can’t see how she/he could have seen this coming!

 

[JoeB]

Have you asked for a full time contract and were you refused?

If not maybe you should and see what happens..

 

[paddyodoors]

Let me get this straight, you choose to move from short hours to not so short hours because it suited you and then you chose to move back to the shorter hours again, again because it suited you.
Now those who worked the not-so-short hours are being offered those hours as part of a full time contract.
You aren’t working those hours because it suits you to work shorter hours.
Are you looking for the longer hours even though up until now you didn’t want to work them?

Unless your boss is a telepath I can’t see how she/he could have seen this coming!

lol...my thoughts exactly, well put.

why would anyone complain about not being offered a contract at rates LOWER than those they were prepared to work for anyway.

If you now would like to go full time again you can ask but I can't see how there is any onus on the employer to offer a part time employee a full time contact, they are doing this purely to reduce their higher OT rates, the "upgade" should only ever have been short term.

Paddy

 

[allyg21]

the not-so-short hours

I think you're getting confused, what do you mean by "not-so-short hours"? It's 37 and a half hours a week just like full-time staff, it's exactly the same, just a different payrate....
I only work one or two nights overtime a week because you can't get anymore than that these days.

It's the problem of newer staff been given contracts before us senior staff that's a problem, there is uproar in work over this and even some managers agree we should persue it, there is many of us here in the same postition as me.... I just wanted to get outside opinion.

I'll head into the union office in work today and I'll post up later what they said...

 

[Purple]

I think you're getting confused, what do you mean by "not-so-short hours"? It's 37 and a half hours a week just like full-time staff, it's exactly the same, just a different payrate....
I only work one or two nights overtime a week because you can't get anymore than that these days.

It's the problem of newer staff been given contracts before us senior staff that's a problem, there is uproar in work over this and even some managers agree we should persue it, there is many of us here in the same postition as me.... I just wanted to get outside opinion.

I'll head into the union office in work today and I'll post up later what they said...

OK, 37.5 hours is, to many people, a short week but that's off topic.

Have you asked for a full-time contract at full time hours, (as JoeB asked)?