coozer
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 02:58 PM |
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can a company force you to take rest days
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our company is forcing us to use 3 floating rest days.. is that legal??
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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tegwin
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 02:59 PM |
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Are they paying you to rest?
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Would the last person who leaves the country please switch off the lights and close the door!
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nib1980
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 03:03 PM |
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my company forces me to take holidays in August and at Xmas, every year, (plant shutdown) and it's all nice an legal (Big OEM)
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RK
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 03:04 PM |
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They may need to call it something else. If they don't use the right wording, they will be in trouble, you can go to the labour board, and they
will pay not only for your time, but damages too. It's all very tricky for the employer, but advantageous to the employee.
Obviously, every country, province, state, etc has different terms and laws, but the principles are the same. Inform yourself by calling the
appropriate labour people at the government.
I give myself rest days all the time. Of course, as an employer, I have no way of getting paid for it!!
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coozer
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 03:12 PM |
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There's two alternatives, use rest days if you have any left... OR take unpaid authorised absence and spread the cost over 3 months, ie. 1 day
each month.
Our gripe is we want to take the unpaid leave and keep our rest days.
Two days after redundacy has finished they batter us with this one.
I really need a new job, out of automotive!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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omega0684
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 03:38 PM |
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just a thought, wot about talking to trade union people?
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JoelP
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 04:11 PM |
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they can do directed holidays, so long as they give you twice as much notice as the period you have off. Ie 6 days notice in this case.
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001Ben
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 05:17 PM |
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yes they can. We had it at our factory during a SAP upgrade.
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smart51
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 06:42 PM |
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My contract says I must save 5 days holiday to be taken at a time of the companies choosing, Usually Christmas. Mostly they pick the 3 days between
Christmas and New Year, but they reserve the right to pick 2 other days. In the factory, their holidays rights are much less, being forced to take 1
whole week and 1 fortnight in blocks out of the remaining days, at dates of the employee's choosing.
I'd be quite annoyed (euphemism) if my boss told me that I had to take 3 days off at the companies choosing, though if there were mitigating
circumstances, I might understand.
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JoelP
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 06:51 PM |
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i tell my 2 lads to have 2 weeks at christmas and one week in september off, that leaves 2 weeks for them to choose. But i do let them take unlimited
holidays unpaid if they want more!
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roadrunner
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 07:25 PM |
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My company is part closing for two weeks and making everyone take those two weeks unpaid. My problem is that i am staff and on a salary, but because i
get paid weekly they say i dont qualify for my wages.
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aerosam
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 07:57 PM |
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Speak to your trade union representative. Our shop is Amicus-AEEU heavily unionised. Management dont get away with much.
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r1_pete
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| posted on 1/10/08 at 08:27 PM |
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It depends what is specified in your contract of employment. I'm in IT (yawn) on a personal contract which does not specify I must save some
lave to fill the blanks at christmas but the company try every year to say 'you must save 3 days hols for christmas' it has been
challenged many times and proven to be 'illegal', un enforcable, is probably a better description.
Stupid thing is, if they said nowt, the majority of people would book it anyway.
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