Employment Rights
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Can my manager force me to cover on days that I don’t usually work?
I have worked for the company for five years, taken on, on a part time basis – normal working days Wednesday, Thursday & Friday office hours. I do holiday cover for two colleagues if they have Mondays and Tuesdays off as extra to my normal working days . This is fine in general. However upon sorting out 2020 holidays I have stated that on certain Mondays and Tuesdays I cannot cover. My manager has said that it is not right that I can’t work those days. Can she enforce me to not make plans on my days off? In the contract it states that my holidays have to be agreed, but there is not anything that says I have to cover holidays – although I do do it.
I cannot see how you can be compelled to make yourself available for work on the days that you are not contracted to work.
The arrangement for covering those days appears to be ad hoc and even if in the contract could only be on the basis that you are available to cover.
I am not sure how the issue has arisen in relation to sorting out 2020 holidays because those days (the Monday and Tuesdays) would not be days on which you would be required to take holiday as they are not working days in my view.
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