20th August 2005, 10:27 AM
Fear not VOR... no wading in has happened.
The actual legalities have been checked with ACAS and are currently being looked into by Prospect and the IFA...
the contracts are continually extending ones, and with work into february, and the implications that re-employment will be forthcoming in the new year, the actions of laying off people on the thursday before Christmas are a carefully calculated act to ensure that there is no 'continuince of employment' thereby no working rights are available. so you have Christmas and New Year with no pay. Happy Christmas. I suffered from that in the past as well... but mostly this legally correct but morally questionable act was consigned to the dustbin of history.
Perhaps it is all a big misunderstanding, perhaps there is a perfectly reasonable eexplanation, but if there is, they are certainly not letting the Fixed Term workers know about it. And with changes to their contracts without prior agreement they are breaking employment law.
So hold on, and lets see what happens, I wade in with both eyes open.. it gets you further in the end than a spikey club.
Another day another WSI?
The actual legalities have been checked with ACAS and are currently being looked into by Prospect and the IFA...
the contracts are continually extending ones, and with work into february, and the implications that re-employment will be forthcoming in the new year, the actions of laying off people on the thursday before Christmas are a carefully calculated act to ensure that there is no 'continuince of employment' thereby no working rights are available. so you have Christmas and New Year with no pay. Happy Christmas. I suffered from that in the past as well... but mostly this legally correct but morally questionable act was consigned to the dustbin of history.
Perhaps it is all a big misunderstanding, perhaps there is a perfectly reasonable eexplanation, but if there is, they are certainly not letting the Fixed Term workers know about it. And with changes to their contracts without prior agreement they are breaking employment law.
So hold on, and lets see what happens, I wade in with both eyes open.. it gets you further in the end than a spikey club.
Another day another WSI?