Reply to: Does professional working day imply no weekends?

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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!

[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.

[psychocandy]

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

[speling bee]

Are you allowed to claim JSA following voluntary redundancy?

Looks like a yes. PC knows his stuff.

[speling bee]

Are you allowed to claim JSA following voluntary redundancy?

[TheFaQQer]

To be fair, only the last year have I found the need for JSA

When I took voluntary redundancy a few years ago...And yes I did claim JSA for that week too!

[speling bee]

To be fair, only the last year have I found the need for JSA

Will you stop going on about it?

[psychocandy]

That's a subjective question, so I couldn't possibly answer that given how you phrased it. But the point being, by continually bringing up the same boring point on unrelated posts, you're adding to the tedium/trolling. Give it a rest. We all know he claims JSA when out of contract. We all have views on it (and mine are in line with yours I think; I think it's a joke), but we don't need to hear it every single time he posts*.







*Especially when his posts usually have lots of other things we can have a pop about.

Because a few people on here for some reason think continually dredging up the same old one-liners is funny for some reason.

And I dont include you in this NLUK. Credit where its due you find a new way of insulting me each time.

But for those others of you, can we give the JSa thing a rest now? To be fair I have my views so I'm hardly going to wake up one morning and say oh no one more dig at me claiming JSA, thats it, I'm not doing it anymore.

Am I?

[psychocandy]

It's hardly new, PC has been claiming JSA during bench time for years.

To be fair, only the last year have I found the need for JSA

[speling bee]

That's a subjective question, so I couldn't possibly answer that given how you phrased it. But the point being, by continually bringing up the same boring point on unrelated posts, you're adding to the tedium/trolling. Give it a rest. We all know he claims JSA when out of contract. We all have views on it (and mine are in line with yours I think; I think it's a joke), but we don't need to hear it every single time he posts*.





*Especially when his posts usually have lots of other things we can have a pop about.

Are we allowed to reference his JSA claims when relevant?

[GillsMan]

And any of PC's posts are actually interesting to start off with?

That's a subjective question, so I couldn't possibly answer that given how you phrased it. But the point being, by continually bringing up the same boring point on unrelated posts, you're adding to the tedium/trolling. Give it a rest. We all know he claims JSA when out of contract. We all have views on it (and mine are in line with yours I think; I think it's a joke), but we don't need to hear it every single time he posts*.





*Especially when his posts usually have lots of other things we can have a pop about.

[northernladuk]

While I think a "contractor" claiming JSA is absolutely nuts, do we really have to keep bringing this up every time PC posts? It's getting quite boring to read.

And any of PC's posts are actually interesting to start off with?