Anyone working Christmas Day?

Emergency service personnel
Military personnel
Hospital staff
Care home workers
Hospitality staff

To name a few who will be working on Christmas Day.

Say no if you want but don't expect to keep your job and if you do keep it then you'll find it become harder to get days/weeks off as you didn't help out at the busiest time of the year.

Also if I was you. I'd be grateful to have a job especially now.


Posted from TSR Mobile

Say you've made plans already,

He shouldn't be doing the rotas this late to be honest, that's very bad management. If it's not a shift you are usually expected to do (i.e. a Wednesday shift during the day) he can't expect you to drop plans you've already made and do those extra hours, especially as it's Christmas day. Double/triple pay for working over Christmas isn't a right, so he isn't obliged to pay you any extra, but he's living in a dream world if he thinks he can just drop this on you at last minute without offering any incentives to do it. If you're only contracted to do a certain amount of hours each week and this Christmas day shift is overtime, refuse. If you have to do the hours as part of your contracted time you may face problems in the future if you don't go in and have difficulty when you want to take a day off as it's ultimately your manager's decision.

I'm working on Christmas Day but not for too long and I'm getting double pay so it's not too bad.


Posted from TSR Mobile

I'm a waitress at a restaurant where the boss isn't exactly a very good one.

Now I'm led to believe by my friends that most places sort out the Christmas rota months before Christmas. Not my boss!! He started doing the rota the Saturday night just gone and he asked me to work Christmas Day. I asked him what I will be paid for working Christmas Day, as I am also aware that most places pay you triple or double for working such days. He replied saying I won't get paid any more than I normally do. That just completely shocked me, how does he expect to get people to work Christmas Day for no extra money? I'm on minimum wage, which is £5.03 for me. All of us working where I am are on minimum wage, people aren't going to work for minimum wage on Christmas Day! Or at least I don't know anybody that would!

He looked completely baffled and shocked when I said no Literally everyone has said no to him.

Has anyone else been asked to work Christmas Day? Have you agreed to? Are you being paid extra? If so how much more?


Posted from TSR Mobile

That's no so bad then! I would happily do it if it wasn't for minimum wage..


Posted from TSR Mobile

My brother has to work Christmas day in an airport, mind you he knew about this for ages. However your manager seems very unorganised.

Yea that's the thing, if I had known much before now then my family could have made plans that fitted around it!

He is very unorganised! He often calls me 10 minutes before the start of my shift and tells me not to come in. Well by then I'm already practically there!! I got there once and I was walking to the staff room, he shouts over to me and tells me to go home! He said that he had meant to call me and tell me before but forgot!

Another time he called me at 5.00pm when I was supposed to start my shift at 7.00pm and asked me to get in for 6.00pm. Baring in mind it takes me more than an hour to get there..


Posted from TSR Mobile

Yeah I don't mind, I stood my ground and didn't let them walk over me, they left the rota to last minute like your boss did, but I just told them I refused to work past 5 o'clock because I'm having Christmas dinner with my family.


Posted from TSR Mobile

I don't know if I could put up working for someone like that, bit like when I worked abroad in Canada, the boss there never put the schedule up till like 2 or 3 days before it was due to start, and expected me to drop everything and come in at a minute's notice.

Yes, I am working on Christmas day. I am a Care Assistant, and there's no point complaining about it.

If it makes you feel any better last year I worked xmas eve, xmas, boxing day, new years eve, new years day, as a waiter.