Does professional working day imply no weekends?

[speling bee]

Are you allowed to claim JSA following voluntary redundancy?

[speling bee]

Are you allowed to claim JSA following voluntary redundancy?

Looks like a yes. PC knows his stuff.

[psychocandy]

To clarify - between contracts whilst being a contractor. The time before was after redundancy as a permie before returning to contracting.

[psychocandy]

Looks like a yes. PC knows his stuff.

You are indeed. Which is possibly a little surprising because if you leave a job of own free will or are sacked etc then you face a number of weeks with no benefits.

VR is, it seems, not included in this.

[GillsMan]

Hahaha, loving the irony of me imploring people to drop the constant references to PC claiming JSA causes the thread to completely change topic to PC and JSA!

[speling bee]

Hahaha, loving the irony of me imploring people to drop the constant references to PC claiming JSA causes the thread to completely change topic to PC and JSA!

Why? Is someone admitting to claiming JSA on a contractor forum? Is that even allowed?

[BHicks]

OP - to clarify, so to date you've been working mon-fri and then the odd weekend which is paid at normal rate? So you billed for 6/7 days all at normal rate.

And now they still want weekend work but want a day off in the week so you're billing no more than 5?

So they could say please work Saturday and Sunday but take Tuesday and Thurday off? Obviously hassle if your staying away.

Sorry but you were flexible and worked weekends for them (yes I know you got paid but you could have said no and you could have asked for a premium) so this is taking the piss now. If it was me I'd start being unavailble at weekends from now on.

Chances are client wont see it like this. They'll just see a resource and work getting done and if they can get people to do it like this they will. Trouble is its awkwrd now if you've worked weekends in the past and suddenly refuse now. I would highlight it if you are staying away though that its awkward for you.

But like others have said, you can suck it up or kick off and bin it.

PC, yes your reading of the situation is correct.

Before undertaking any weekend work I confirmed with the agency that it would be paid and that it was by mutual agreement.

Given the stunt they're trying to pull now, as you say, I think my weekends have now suddenly filled up. :-)

I have naturally asked that any requests of this nature be put in writing, after all, if it's a policy then it has to be documented, right?

I notice though that very few posters have commented on whether PWD would imply Mon-Fri either of itself, or when considered in the light of the sector concerned.

I think a chat with B&C is in order to see what their take on it is. Mine would be that the mutual agreement has just expired.

Oh and to the other posters,can we keep this thread vaguely on topic? Feel free to discuss JSA somewhere else.

[d000hg]

As I said, I don't think weekends are special unless described that way - my contract schedule says work will be done during normal working hours (Mon-Fri 8-6) although they don't actually care in reality.

If the work you are contracted to necessitates working at the weekend - doing backups or maintenance for instance - then the fact you are now only getting 5 days instead of 6/7 seems immaterial.

If not, then them telling you which days you should be working is worrying from a D&C standpoint - it should be up to you when and how you do your work, within the boundaries of common sense based on how the client operates and the nature of the work.

But it will come down to human interaction from the sounds of it, if there's not a contractual reason otherwise... tell them you only worked weekends as an extra thing on top, you're not going to work weekends instead of Mon-Fri unless they renegotiate to pay you more.