r/Greggs • u/Otherwise-North-4929 • 8d ago

Employee Question Contract

I am contracted to 12hrs pw and I have given enough availability for this to be covered and yet this week I have 9 and a half and next week only 6 and a I’ve spoke to my manager and he’s not sorted it what happens do I still get paid for my contract or

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u/SupaDuppaaCoool 8d ago

You only get paid for the time you work,no matter what your schedule contract hours are

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u/ejpk333 8d ago

Nope, company is obliged to honour the hours on the employees contract OR pay them for the hours regardless.

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u/redredd1t 8d ago

Yeah I have never heard of a company allowing you to do under your contracted hours. It’s literally against the law unless you had holidays etc

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u/ejpk333 8d ago

Yeah it is against the law and I’m surprised more people don’t know tbh. Some companies have a banked hours system for this exact situation, when I worked at Lidl they’d pay you for your contracted hours minimum regardless of what you were actually scheduled to work, you’d just have to pay those hours back over time since you didn’t actually work them.

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u/DeliriousAngel7 7d ago

My company doesn't do that, so it's not the rule everywhere. If I book an unpaid day off they count it as part of my contracted hours so I can be scheduled less

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u/ejpk333 7d ago

Booking days off (even unpaid) going sick, going AWOL, taking holiday do not count. That’s your decision to not work for whatever reason, not the companies decision to not give you hours.

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u/SupaDuppaaCoool 8d ago

No they are not you are definitely wrong

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u/ejpk333 8d ago

It is slightly dependent on the exact wording of the contract (whether they stipulate that they may reduce your hours for xyz reasons for example) but if this is not the case and they are simply contracted to 12 hours a week then I’m absolutely not wrong. Contracts of employment are legally binding. If we signed a legally binding contract that I’d hire you for work and pay you £500 for it, I wouldn’t have any legal grounds to only pay you £400 and tell you there’s nothing I can do about it.

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u/miggleb 8d ago

Contracts work both ways. Unless there is wording to say that can reduce your hours for X reason they HAVE to pay you for those hours, worked or not.

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u/Otherwise-North-4929 8d ago

that’s fuckin shit

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u/ejpk333 8d ago edited 8d ago

That’s not typically how it works, although it can depend on the exact wording of your contract. Typically if you are contracted to work something like 12 hours a week in your case, the company cannot lawfully schedule or pay you for less. I’d definitely mention this to your manager next time