Hi everyone,
I hope someone can help me out. Long story short, I have been working full time hours on a part time employment contract for the last 4 years.
Until I brought it up to HR a year ago, I was working extra hours only at the normal rate without full time employment benefits. When this was found, they rectified by making the back-payment for all the additional hours I had done, as those hours should have been paid at an overtime rate.
On the letter issued by HR, it stated my role will remain on the part time employment contract, and from time to time I may be required to work additional hours due to company's operation change. Prior to this engagement I will receive a written confirmation of the particulars of each engagement.
The letter was dated June 2014 and It has been over a year now and I am still working full time hours ever since. The fact is I have never ever been issued with any confirmation of such engagement for additional hours as stated in the letter. Additional hours have been "norm" and "expected" by everyone.
Despite of the fact that I had a number of attempts at them to consider offering me a proper full time contract whilst I am literally working full time hours, this was never considered. On top of that, I have never been consulted by managers or HR about my condition once, expect for when I had to reach HR about the unfair condition I was placed on before the back-payment.
Now all of the sudden I have been advised that the management is creating a brand new additional full time role which will take over some of my workload. Therefore they will not require me work those additional any longer. And so that I will only be given the part time contract hours.
I feel that this is a unfair treatment. There were number of years time when they could sort this out by placing me on a full time employment contract whilst it was expected, norm and required that I do full time hours. They kept me on part time for all these years with all the responsibilities, now they want to create this new role and they think they can simply cut my hours back.
I would like to know the other's opinion on my situation, and if someone could confirm the company is breaching employment law.
Many thanks,
I hope someone can help me out. Long story short, I have been working full time hours on a part time employment contract for the last 4 years.
Until I brought it up to HR a year ago, I was working extra hours only at the normal rate without full time employment benefits. When this was found, they rectified by making the back-payment for all the additional hours I had done, as those hours should have been paid at an overtime rate.
On the letter issued by HR, it stated my role will remain on the part time employment contract, and from time to time I may be required to work additional hours due to company's operation change. Prior to this engagement I will receive a written confirmation of the particulars of each engagement.
The letter was dated June 2014 and It has been over a year now and I am still working full time hours ever since. The fact is I have never ever been issued with any confirmation of such engagement for additional hours as stated in the letter. Additional hours have been "norm" and "expected" by everyone.
Despite of the fact that I had a number of attempts at them to consider offering me a proper full time contract whilst I am literally working full time hours, this was never considered. On top of that, I have never been consulted by managers or HR about my condition once, expect for when I had to reach HR about the unfair condition I was placed on before the back-payment.
Now all of the sudden I have been advised that the management is creating a brand new additional full time role which will take over some of my workload. Therefore they will not require me work those additional any longer. And so that I will only be given the part time contract hours.
I feel that this is a unfair treatment. There were number of years time when they could sort this out by placing me on a full time employment contract whilst it was expected, norm and required that I do full time hours. They kept me on part time for all these years with all the responsibilities, now they want to create this new role and they think they can simply cut my hours back.
I would like to know the other's opinion on my situation, and if someone could confirm the company is breaching employment law.
Many thanks,