Hi,
I work for a builders merchant and have been asked to swop Saturdays with another driver so it works out fair with the long weekends when bank holidays come round, so here is my question, Is this Legal
This is what it would look like with the swop
first week Monday to Friday 7.30 - 5.00
Saturday 7.30 - 12.30
Second week Monday to Friday 7.30 - 5.00
Saturday 7.30 - 12.30
Third week Monday - Friday 7.30 - 5.00 weekend off
back in Monday morning.
we usually have every other Saturday off but with a swop out it would mean two reduced weekly rest periods on the trot.
Badmarky:
Hi,
I work for a builders merchant and have been asked to swop Saturdays with another driver so it works out fair with the long weekends when bank holidays come round, so here is my question, Is this Legal
This is what it would look like with the swop
first week Monday to Friday 7.30 - 5.00
Saturday 7.30 - 12.30
Second week Monday to Friday 7.30 - 5.00
Saturday 7.30 - 12.30
Third week Monday - Friday 7.30 - 5.00 weekend off
back in Monday morning.
we usually have every other Saturday off but with a swop out it would mean two reduced weekly rest periods on the trot.
Thanks in advance for any replies
If the first week is starting Jan 6th and you were off the week ending the 5th then what you propose is legal as a one off
Let me know if that is the case so I can explain why its legal
Badmarky:
Hi,
I work for a builders merchant and have been asked to swop Saturdays with another driver so it works out fair with the long weekends when bank holidays come round, so here is my question, Is this Legal
This is what it would look like with the swop
first week Monday to Friday 7.30 - 5.00
Saturday 7.30 - 12.30
Second week Monday to Friday 7.30 - 5.00
Saturday 7.30 - 12.30
Third week Monday - Friday 7.30 - 5.00 weekend off
back in Monday morning.
we usually have every other Saturday off but with a swop out it would mean two reduced weekly rest periods on the trot.
Thanks in advance for any replies
Badmarky:
This has to happen in the future so that certain drivers don’t have all of the long weekends when the bank holidays arrive
Thanks mark
You want an answer to a question for the future weekend work but it’s not possible to give an accurate answer I’m afraid.
You would need to work it out for the individual drivers every time a driver wanted to have two consecutive reduced weekly rest periods.
The easiest way to work this would be if the driver who’s working two consecutive Saturdays could start two hours later on one of the Mondays, that would mean he was having 45 hours off so only having a reduced weekly rest period on one of the weeks.
Just out of interest, how many drivers would be involved ?
Tachograph - I get the sense that this is a one off change around during the first three weeks back at work after a long xmas/new year break and that being the case then its going to be perfectly legal as a one off change around by using the last 45 hours of the holls as the regular weekly rest for the fixed week starting on the first monday back
ROG: Tachograph - I get the sense that this is a one off change around during the first three weeks back at work after a long xmas/new year break and that being the case then its going to be perfectly legal as a one off change around by using the last 45 hours of the holls as the regular weekly rest for the fixed week starting on the first monday back
That’s how I see this playing out
The OP hasn’t mentioned Christmas or New year, he has however mentioned future bank holiday weekends.
I could be wrong but I think he’s looking for a way to ensure the same driver isn’t working every bank holiday weekend, in other words when the bank holiday weekends falls on a particular drivers rota twice in a row they want to change a drivers rota for one weekend then go back to the original rota.
That’s the way I’m reading it based on when he said “This has to happen in the future so that certain drivers don’t have all of the long weekends when the bank holidays arrive”
Thanks for the replies guys, think I’ve got it now, the driver who does the two reduced on the trot will have to start two hours later than usual on the Monday so a 45hr rest period has been taken.
Cheers Mark
Badmarky:
Thanks for the replies guys, think I’ve got it now, the driver who does the two reduced on the trot will have to start two hours later than usual on the Monday so a 45hr rest period has been taken.
Cheers Mark