Rotating 5-Day Work Week

tkaraba

Employer currently operates a 3 shift warehouse five days per week (M to F). During the next 3 month peak season, employer would like to move to a 3 shift, 7-day per week schedule. Employees would still work only 5 days per week, but they will now be rotated on a schedule such that they will now need to work some weekends during the course of the next 3 months. What issues (other than the obvious employee moral issue) if any does this change in the terms of employment present?

Thanks

Whatever

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 07-22-05 AT 12:55PM (CST)[/font][br][br]1. Welcome to the site.
2. The only thing I can see is possibly people who cannot work on the Sabbath (either Saturday or Sunday).
3. People who might have baby-sitting problems (tho technically, it is not the employers problem)

LivindonSouth

I know of no legal issues this presents. Thgis is actually a very fair system whereby the employer is staggering/rotating the weeks. It may even result in some limited overtime potential which is a good thing.

POPEYE

Because of business demands, we just moved from a 5 day 3 shift schedule to a 7 day 4 12 hr. shift schedule which rotates every week as follows:

A (days) and B (nights) shifts will work Mon. and Tues., be off Wed and Thurs., work Fri. Sat. Sun., and the next week will be off
Mon. Tues., work Wed. Thurs. off Fri Sat Sun.

The other two shifts do just the opposite. One week 36 hrs. Next week 48 with 8 OT hrs.

We only lost 1 employee (out of 200 affected) because of not being able to work the shifts. We gave them about 2 months notice to get transportation, babysitting etc. lined up. Having a 3 day week-end every other week was a big selling point. Also, pointing out the fact that in a normal month on 8 hour shifts they would work 20 days but on this schedule they only work 14-15 days.

Good Luck!!!