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Reduced Hours Staff - The Impact On You
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Date: 15th Jan 2010
There are currently some 30,000 staff who work reduced hours in the Group. A number of the proposed changes to the terms and conditions will have a specific impact on reduced hours staff and it is important that you understand those changes and the impact they will have on you and your family.
The Bank will be introducing a new working window of Monday to Saturday 8am to 8pm for the calculation of overtime. However, your new contract when you get it will not state your actual hours of work or when you work but will say they will be “as agreed with Line Managers”. Our concern for Reduced Hours staff is that the Bank will try to move to more flexible working within the new working window. This system currently operates in HBOS.
Currently, reduced hours staff who are required to move to a different branch/office at the Bank’s request can reasonably refuse that move if it is more than 25 miles away or will take longer than 1 hour 15 minutes by public transport.
It’s true to say that the Bank has never liked the defined criteria in the mobility policy and the rewriting of terms and conditions gives it the perfect opportunity to remove it once and for all. In the future what is a ‘reasonable’ move will be determined solely by the Bank – that is completely unacceptable.
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