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Title: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: snufflesthebear on 28-06-22, 05:28PM
Hi, our store and is over-hours and everyone that leaves is never replaced. The department I work on is paper thin. I have my contracted shifts which I do, and they are needed, but during right hours, right place can your manager contract you to a day which is not in your availability window?

Thanks
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Sherwoodforest on 28-06-22, 07:08PM
Your availability is exactly that,your availability,they can ask you to move,but cant force you,alot of managers just toss off availability forms,people apply for jobs saying available full time most days,then availabilty form done by manager and suddenly only available for contracted hours,
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Jackwarda on 28-06-22, 07:11PM
I think one of the VLH more experienced people may be able to offer more help. BUt my understanding is if you have not put down a day you are available, then I dont think they can. For ex, if you work Mon, Tues, Wed, Thur and not put down frid or weekend, I dont think they can make you, only on the days you stated?
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Jackwarda on 28-06-22, 07:14PM
@Sherwoodforest, also if someone has put say 9am to 5am availability and you contracted 9am to 1pm, they can ask you to cover up to 5am availability but cant ask or tell you to do say up to 7pm, unless you wanted to.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Redshoes on 01-07-22, 09:27AM
All areas are thin now. Hours have been cut. If your store is over hours they will be tasked with getting the hours in the right place and there will be limited overtime available because of this too.
You can select to work outside your availability window but you can't be forced to do so.
There can however be a business case scenario to move hours from an over hours time to an under hours time. It has to be fair and not targeted at one person but it can be done. If you can't work in the new proposed hours the store can then look at moving your dept to an area that does need you at that time.
If the store is generally over hours moving people to a different time of day or dept might be a exercise not worth doing. It's only if over hours but with shifts unfilled that it generates a business case to do so.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Tesla on 02-07-22, 12:56AM
Do them 1 overtime shift and that makes you fully flexible. If they complain remind them of that time you helped. The managers won't have a leg to stand on.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Redshoes on 04-07-22, 08:30AM
We have loads of people that only do one overtime shift a week. That's fine, it's fair.  Everyone gets a bit of overtime and as so many doing it the overtime can generally be filled.  Trouble days are Sat and Sun but this just takes a bit more work but no pressure for anyone to do shifts they don't want.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: redeo on 06-07-22, 02:44PM
Quote from: Sherwoodforest on 28-06-22, 07:08PMYour availability is exactly that,your availability,they can ask you to move,but cant force you,alot of managers just toss off availability forms,people apply for jobs saying available full time most days,then availabilty form done by manager and suddenly only available for contracted hours,

Yes because the contract isn't long enough and provide enoug money to live off, so people end up getting additional jobs. If Tesco wants full time staff then offer full time contract at a wage that allows people to only have Tesco as their only job.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Batmanjo on 06-07-22, 04:26PM
Quote from: snufflesthebear on 28-06-22, 05:28PMHi, our store and is over-hours and everyone that leaves is never replaced. The department I work on is paper thin. I have my contracted shifts which I do, and they are needed, but during right hours, right place can your manager contract you to a day which is not in your availability window?

Thanks

They can move your hours within reason and would need to show a good business reason to do this, however they cannot change them from day to night, having said that it would not be within reason to change your days as this would cross over the day / night exception. I would not except the RHRP malarkey as a business reason this is just a copy of the rota for whatever department you are on. 
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Cinderella on 12-07-22, 09:18AM
I am constantly being scheduled outside of my availability. My manager even threatened to demote me and move me to another department because of my objections! Not even the Occupational Health report detailing how difficult certain times are for me stops them. This comes up every few months, and I've been scheduled out of my availability for the next three weeks in a row. They never ask me beforehand, and won't make changes once the schedule has been issued
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: FarmerFred on 12-07-22, 09:56AM
If they're consistently scheduling you outside of your availability windows without your agreement then do your standard contractual shifts & raise a grievance as they're not following policy.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Redshoes on 13-07-22, 09:19AM
Quote from: FarmerFred on 12-07-22, 09:56AMIf they're consistently scheduling you outside of your availability windows without your agreement then do your standard contractual shifts & raise a grievance as they're not following policy.
As you mention threaten to demote you are not a customer assistant. As such it all changes. Managers and shift leaders don't have set shifts. I request a regular same day off and get that 80% of the time. I request another day off for working a Sunday as I don't want to work six days a week, I always get this. My only other request is minimal late shifts into earlies. I used to get loads of 2000 finish into 0500 starts. I get hardly any now. The rest of it we swap between us. As in "I will do your late tues". There is never a schedule without a change. Shift leads and managers are all on one rota. The fresh shift lead gets more early shifts and the grocery gets more TW, generally.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: lucgeo on 13-07-22, 09:35AM
Nobody, irrelevant of status, should be working without the legal 11 hour working time directive rest break between shifts.
As a manager, you obviously know this! :-X

Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Redshoes on 15-07-22, 07:41AM
It's 11 hours without opt out and it happens. I get shifts most weeks with 9 hours between at least once. For a superstore with a small management team it happens. When one manager is on holiday and another goes sick then add in the managers with child care we sometimes do not have a choice. We just get on with it.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: londoner83 on 15-07-22, 07:54AM
But the point is you shouldn't just get on with it. If you dug your heels in and said no, the manager wouldn't have a leg to stand on and couldn't make you work those shifts.

A company the size of Tesco would struggle to show that they couldn't move someone from another store to cover gaps in rotas caused by absence.

Long-term lack of rest affects your health and mental well-being, and you could well be storing up problems that affect you later in life.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: General Thorn on 15-07-22, 12:34PM
Quote from: Redshoes on 15-07-22, 07:41AMIt's 11 hours without opt out and it happens. I get shifts most weeks with 9 hours between at least once. For a superstore with a small management team it happens. When one manager is on holiday and another goes sick then add in the managers with child care we sometimes do not have a choice. We just get on with it.

The point is, it should not be happening regularly or it just becomes the norm. Next we will find that the time between shifts has been slashed to 8 or 9 hours because 'colleagues have agreed to it.'

In my store there are lots of things that should not be happening, that now occur on a regular basis eg split shifts, less than 11 hours between shifts, working 12 days before time off, not taking breaks, no safety shoes when offloading wagons, pressured to do overtime with very little notice.

With Tesco's low rate of pay and all the increases in day to day living, I can only see more and more colleagues jumping at whatever they can get and the bosses rubbing their hands in glee  >:D
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Nomad on 15-07-22, 05:05PM
I have trouble recalling an employment where I have not had to point out to others that whatever you do over the top is rarely appreciated, remembered or rewarded.  but it will surely come to be expected and will make you the 'bad guy' when you decline to do whatever it is.  FACT.  :'(
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Cinderella on 16-09-22, 10:27PM
This is still happening in my store. Almost a year of arguing with them about scheduling me outside of my availability, without even asking if I am willing to do it. I actually changed my availability, adding in the day they kept scheduling me for, but limiting the times I could do - giving nine hours of availability on the day that was previously not available at all. But that's not good enough, apparently. They keep scheduling me outside of this, and telling me I'm not fit for the role if I can't do any shifts they want. They also keep saying that Part Time colleagues aren't required to be flexible, although employment law states that FT and PT employees should be subject to the same conditions and treatment. My availability is limited that particular day that I've added (just for them!) due to medical reasons, but even that isn't good enough. I'm seriously regretting increasing my availability at all, as it's just created even more drama!

I found on ourtesco a paragraph about being scheduled within the agreed availability window, but nothing about accepting the availability, following it for two months and then suddenly scheduling you wherever they want and saying you're not suitable when you object!
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: SimonF12030 on 16-09-22, 11:12PM
They are full of s**t, get them to show you the corporate guidelines that say this, and they will buckle
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: oldfashionedplayer on 17-09-22, 02:20AM
Quote from: Cinderella on 16-09-22, 10:27PMThis is still happening in my store. Almost a year of arguing with them about scheduling me outside of my availability, without even asking if I am willing to do it. I actually changed my availability, adding in the day they kept scheduling me for, but limiting the times I could do - giving nine hours of availability on the day that was previously not available at all. But that's not good enough, apparently. They keep scheduling me outside of this, and telling me I'm not fit for the role if I can't do any shifts they want. They also keep saying that Part Time colleagues aren't required to be flexible, although employment law states that FT and PT employees should be subject to the same conditions and treatment. My availability is limited that particular day that I've added (just for them!) due to medical reasons, but even that isn't good enough. I'm seriously regretting increasing my availability at all, as it's just created even more drama!

I found on ourtesco a paragraph about being scheduled within the agreed availability window, but nothing about accepting the availability, following it for two months and then suddenly scheduling you wherever they want and saying you're not suitable when you object!

https://colleague-help.ourtesco.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035197351-Working-Hours-How-much-availability-do-I-need-to-provide-if-I-am-a-flexible-worker-in-stores-

"If you are a Part time flexible colleague you can have core hours on a Sunday that are worked each week. You would not however have an availability window or be required to flex up on Sundays or Bank Holidays."

also - https://colleague-help.ourtesco.com/hc/en-us/articles/7085329110420-Extra-hours-Market-and-colleague-availability

"Until the new contract is launched on 16 October, colleagues currently on a flexi contract will be able to view and
sign up for extra hours shifts 24 hours before other colleagues. This is in recognition of the fact that stores will no
longer be scheduling additional hours for these colleagues,
and the new contract and commitment to increase
contracted hours has not yet come into effect. When the new contract comes into effect in October, the current
flexi contracts will no longer exist, and all colleagues will have access to view and book voluntary extra hours
shifts at the same time"

if they are pressuring you, you can challenge it under bullying, discriminating and equality, since you are being targeted.. whilst policy dictates that shouldn't be the case
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Bobmay on 17-09-22, 03:23PM
Quote from: Cinderella on 16-09-22, 10:27PMThis is still happening in my store. Almost a year of arguing with them about scheduling me outside of my availability, without even asking if I am willing to do it. I actually changed my availability, adding in the day they kept scheduling me for, but limiting the times I could do - giving nine hours of availability on the day that was previously not available at all. But that's not good enough, apparently. They keep scheduling me outside of this, and telling me I'm not fit for the role if I can't do any shifts they want. They also keep saying that Part Time colleagues aren't required to be flexible, although employment law states that FT and PT employees should be subject to the same conditions and treatment. My availability is limited that particular day that I've added (just for them!) due to medical reasons, but even that isn't good enough. I'm seriously regretting increasing my availability at all, as it's just created even more drama!

I found on ourtesco a paragraph about being scheduled within the agreed availability window, but nothing about accepting the availability, following it for two months and then suddenly scheduling you wherever they want and saying you're not suitable when you object!

They can't do anything.If they don't want you than say pay my redundancy.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: person7 on 18-09-22, 06:08PM
They can ask but you can decline - whole point of availability window is "this is when I'm usually available if I'm needed but I'm not expected to be available out of these hours/days".

So they can ask but they cant make you.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Redshoes on 18-09-22, 07:02PM
Quote from: Cinderella on 16-09-22, 10:27PMThis is still happening in my store. Almost a year of arguing with them about scheduling me outside of my availability, without even asking if I am willing to do it. I actually changed my availability, adding in the day they kept scheduling me for, but limiting the times I could do - giving nine hours of availability on the day that was previously not available at all. But that's not good enough, apparently. They keep scheduling me outside of this, and telling me I'm not fit for the role if I can't do any shifts they want. They also keep saying that Part Time colleagues aren't required to be flexible, although employment law states that FT and PT employees should be subject to the same conditions and treatment. My availability is limited that particular day that I've added (just for them!) due to medical reasons, but even that isn't good enough. I'm seriously regretting increasing my availability at all, as it's just created even more drama!

I found on ourtesco a paragraph about being scheduled within the agreed availability window, but nothing about accepting the availability, following it for two months and then suddenly scheduling you wherever they want and saying you're not suitable when you object!

Is this as a colleague or as a shift leader.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: universe on 20-09-22, 07:06PM
So am I to understand, does this new contract replace right hours right place ? if I say my availability is only my current contracted fixed hours they cannot force me to change any hours without my consent ?
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Bobmay on 21-09-22, 12:29AM
Quote from: londoner83 on 15-07-22, 07:54AMBut the point is you shouldn't just get on with it. If you dug your heels in and said no, the manager wouldn't have a leg to stand on and couldn't make you work those shifts.

A company the size of Tesco would struggle to show that they couldn't move someone from another store to cover gaps in rotas caused by absence.

Long-term lack of rest affects your health and mental well-being, and you could well be storing up problems that affect you later in life.

Agree. Some love to be bullied and treated worse like donkeys than complain that others don't accept it
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Bobmay on 21-09-22, 12:32AM
Quote from: universe on 20-09-22, 07:06PMSo am I to understand, does this new contract replace right hours right place ? if I say my availability is only my current contracted fixed hours they cannot force me to change any hours without my consent ?

They can't force you. However if there is a need for it they will remove you by giving you redundancy or another store.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: RubyFox_xo on 07-10-22, 08:12PM
Hi I'm sorry to jump on this thread but I'm not able to start my own topic. I have an interview at Tesco on Tuesday and the job was advertised as 11 hpw with a set shift pattern. I only want to do these hours, is that possible? From what I've read I'm thinking no...
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: lucgeo on 07-10-22, 09:07PM
To be honest, in my experience...NO!

This is my bugbear with Tesco advertising vacancies, they state set hours and shift patterns, then waste peoples time ( not to mention costs attending) in interviews, only to then ask them to give extra availability windows!
I had a relative who applied for the stated advertised shifts, as they fitted in with family commitments! Spent money on childcare to attend the interview, only then to have their application tossed to one side, in front of all the other interviewees,  with the comment by the people partner ( HA) " that's not much good is it?!" When said those were the only hours they were available to do!

Things could have changed now, so no harm in ringing the store and asking for more info on availability required?


 
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: oldfashionedplayer on 07-10-22, 09:43PM
Quote from: RubyFox_xo on 07-10-22, 08:12PMHi I'm sorry to jump on this thread but I'm not able to start my own topic. I have an interview at Tesco on Tuesday and the job was advertised as 11 hpw with a set shift pattern. I only want to do these hours, is that possible? From what I've read I'm thinking no...

Depends I think if you start on the new Contracts I think you do?

The new contracts mean you have to give 1.5x availability hours, so you'd be scheduled for an availability window of like 16 hours I guess? Your availability should be discussed and shifts should be assigned with a minimum of 3 weeks notice on the new system, so you can adjust your availability pattern with them by filling out availability forms..

Essentially though, if your doing the 11 hours you should be okay..


Think though that they change your shift of those 11 hours to into that window of your availability


So Monday and Wednesday of like 5.5 hours each. One week and you've put down that your also available on Thursday for 6 hours.

So they could say monday and Thursday for, 5 hours for 1, 6 hours for tbe other. Like that I believe. But HAVE TO GIVE PLENTY OF NOTICE.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: madness on 07-10-22, 10:40PM
Quote from: lucgeo on 07-10-22, 09:07PMTo be honest, in my experience...NO!

This is my bugbear with Tesco advertising vacancies, they state set hours and shift patterns, then waste peoples time ( not to mention costs attending) in interviews, only to then ask them to give extra availability windows!
I had a relative who applied for the stated advertised shifts, as they fitted in with family commitments! Spent money on childcare to attend the interview, only then to have their application tossed to one side, in front of all the other interviewees,  with the comment by the people partner ( HA) " that's not much good is it?!" When said those were the only hours they were available to do!

Things could have changed now, so no harm in ringing the store and asking for more info on availability required?


 
In the interest of balance I have had too many people apply for know hours and at the interivew ask to do different hours...
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Teddybonkers on 07-10-22, 10:56PM
Quote from: RubyFox_xo on 07-10-22, 08:12PMHi I'm sorry to jump on this thread but I'm not able to start my own topic. I have an interview at Tesco on Tuesday and the job was advertised as 11 hpw with a set shift pattern. I only want to do these hours, is that possible? From what I've read I'm thinking no...

No chance whatsoever. That "set shift pattern" is a work of fiction, as you'll be expected to work far in excess of those hours week in, week out. Tesco now expect people to work full time, on part time contracts to avoid paying the benefits of full time work - holiday entitlement, sick pay etc. You'll be expected to cover all sorts of random shifts across the entire week, depending on the "requirements of the business". If you can genuinely only work 11hrs p/w, you're wasting your time.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Totot on 08-10-22, 10:54AM
It will depend on you, you just need to insist that you can do in certain time and max how many hours in your interview. If they give it to you, just have it in written contract, you can always say no when it is not suitable for you in interview or later on when you already start working.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: londoner83 on 09-10-22, 09:52AM
Vacancies should now be for a minimum of 16hrs a week with a extra 50% availability on top.

So you would need to give 24hrs availability and once schedule to workload  rolls out you would be scheduled to work a minimum 16hrs a week at any point in your availability window. There will for new employees be no such thing as set shifts each week.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: lucgeo on 09-10-22, 10:30AM
 8-) And yet, just doing a quick check on vacancies for my area, many are 15 hours or under with set shift patterns and no mention of additional availability required.
Tesco should practice what they preach...open and honest, but then would they get anyone apply  ???
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Cairney39 on 09-10-22, 10:39AM
So much just plain wrong information. If you are applying for Tesco, the 16th Oct is a key date. If you are starting before that, your core hours are fixed and there is no obligation to say you are flexible around any others. If employed after 16th oct, you will be asked to have core hours that could be moved with 3 weeks notice within a +50% hour window that you decide. If at interview, your +50% availability isn't desirable, another candidate with better availability may be selected. Your +50% availability isn't to make you work extra hours, only that your "core" hours may be moved within your availability. For example. Core hours are 5-10pm 2 days a week. You say you can work between 230-10pm 2 days a week, with 3 weeks notice, your 5 hour shift can be moved, one week it might be 230-730, the next 4-9.

For existing colleagues, this is all on colleague help. The article is very Long. There is a lot of routine that managers need to adhere to and there is lots of information to digest but it's worth a read
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: londoner83 on 09-10-22, 11:35AM
The problem is many students don't want 16hr a week contracts and definitely don't have 24hrs of availability with their school/college timetables.

So in typical Tesco fashion management will bend the policy to suit them.......
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: RubyFox_xo on 09-10-22, 01:26PM
Thanks for all the replies. I am disabled so the amount of hours I can work per week is limited. I've been looking for a 12 hours per week or less contract for months. Some places will advertise hours and shift pattern that feels doable for me but all the interviews I've been to I've been told they need someone to be more flexible, so I wondered if Tesco was the same. I don't know whether it's worth going to the interview and being laughed at.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Cinderella on 09-10-22, 03:06PM
Quote from: Redshoes on 18-09-22, 07:02PM
Quote from: Cinderella on 16-09-22, 10:27PMThis is still happening in my store. Almost a year of arguing with them about scheduling me outside of my availability, without even asking if I am willing to do it. I actually changed my availability, adding in the day they kept scheduling me for, but limiting the times I could do - giving nine hours of availability on the day that was previously not available at all. But that's not good enough, apparently. They keep scheduling me outside of this, and telling me I'm not fit for the role if I can't do any shifts they want. They also keep saying that Part Time colleagues aren't required to be flexible, although employment law states that FT and PT employees should be subject to the same conditions and treatment. My availability is limited that particular day that I've added (just for them!) due to medical reasons, but even that isn't good enough. I'm seriously regretting increasing my availability at all, as it's just created even more drama!

I found on ourtesco a paragraph about being scheduled within the agreed availability window, but nothing about accepting the availability, following it for two months and then suddenly scheduling you wherever they want and saying you're not suitable when you object!

Is this as a colleague or as a shift leader.

If by colleague you mean a Customer Assistant, then it's neither of these as we don't have Shift Leaders in our store. My health condition has been known since the start of my employment almost a decade ago, and it was known when I was given the role I'm now in as of four years ago. I'm the only one holding this position expected to be flexible, the rest have fixed shifts
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: FuriousAnger on 29-11-22, 07:30AM
This is the great thing about Tesco now. So say you have applied for a job its like 16hours a week just on Friday and Saturday.
The job is advertised as so but they are now requesting you give 56 hours of availability over the entire week.
So we have drivers that its a second job only work couple of evenings but they then have to give that ridiculous amount of availability which would be outside of the hours they would do anyway lol
This company fully stopped being focused on people rather than money at least 10 to 15 years ago now.
Best thing any of us can do is go in do our shift and do as little as possible for your money. Just stick to rule and do your job no one else's.
All these stores will be there long after we go as we are now just numbers
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: oldfashionedplayer on 29-11-22, 08:56AM
you only have to give 1.5x your availability for new starters now, so if you join on a 16 hour, you'd only be expected to add another 8 hours somewhere else... and the minimum you'd join on now is 12 that can be offered... they are more focused on money true, but yeah don't throw your availability down as forever lol.

Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: markwinters on 04-01-23, 11:33AM
New process , "moving availability windows" on the Tesco website- they can move you it takes time and effort which is why most store managers don't bother following it through, won't have a choice the way wage budgets are goin to be in new year
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: londoner83 on 04-01-23, 02:38PM
They can attempt to move your hours but legally could become unstuck if you have a sound reason why they can't be moved.

Those people who won't work Friday nights as they like to go out could come unstuck but anyone with caring responsibilities/second jobs would have legitimate reasons why they wouldn't be able to change their hours.

With a business the size of Tesco, Tesco would be expected to accommodate reasonable requests for set shifts.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Truthtalker on 28-01-23, 05:42PM
No, you cannot be forced to work outside of your availability.
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Bobmay on 29-01-23, 11:54AM
Quote from: londoner83 on 04-01-23, 02:38PMThey can attempt to move your hours but legally could become unstuck if you have a sound reason why they can't be moved.

Those people who won't work Friday nights as they like to go out could come unstuck but anyone with caring responsibilities/second jobs would have legitimate reasons why they wouldn't be able to change their hours.

With a business the size of Tesco, Tesco would be expected to accommodate reasonable requests for set shifts.

Tesco can't move your hour unless with your permission. K
Title: Re: Can Tesco make you work outside of your availability window?
Post by: Redshoes on 29-01-23, 10:00PM
Now is the time to decide if the hours you work are more important to you than the dept you work in. If you are unable to adjust hours as routines change in the dept you work in you will be put to work in another area that is under hours.
For example, I had to change things as I had main bank checkouts removed both end of the day. Therefore I did not need people on both checkouts and self service. In the morning it was only a mater of one colleague moving hours one hour later but the evening brought some forward by two hours. I worked with colleagues to resolve this.
The pfs and CSD also went single manned but I had people retiring so this process was made easier by that. It was still difficult. Some were offered hours in other areas but all chose to adapt to new way of working and stay in dept.
Cash office colleagues chose to take on other roles rather than have hours cut. They have interesting and varied jobs because of this and have kept the time of day that suits them.