My significant and vastly more wonderful other is three weeks into a new job.
The job entails community kids and parents engagement and travelling across scotland.
We have a wedding on saturday its on a saturday and not a normal working day for her and obviously sunday is a day off too.
So yesterday she gets an email saying “somethings come up on sunday who can work” she replied saying sorry she’s away and not available. This has been accepted.
Now while they accepted it they’ve also said if she wants to ensure time off even at the weekends she needs to book it as annual leave which already sounds a bit suspect if you considering she gets 28days leave and there are how many weekends? BUT they’ve also said if nothing occurs that might have been work she’ll get it back if something does occur she’ll lose it.
My mind boggles at this they’re basically saying you have to gamble your annual leave?
So… Firstly this is a charity that has been taken over by an umbrella charity (i think i might see why it needs rescuing) as far as i’m aware the problem lies in this small charity doing what they’ve always done. There has already been some overuling by the main charity so i think change is in the pipeline. I’m fairly sure its also just incompetence. But the work itself is exactly her thing and really quite useful to build CV walking wouldn’t be ideal atleast not just yet.
But can anyone shed light on the law regarding weekends and leave.
If she booked two days annual leave for this weekend and lost it because a job came up i’m fairly sure that would constitute a 7day week and would be against the law?