Knowing your rights helps to communicate with the employer, who sometimes wants to save money on the labor of an ordinary employee and fills out a cooperation agreement for his own benefit. It is important to know how a shift schedule differs from part-time employment.
Part-time employment
Part-time work is doing work that does not require a person to use their entire working day. An example of such work can be a highly skilled worker performing a simpler job that does not require special education.
The sub-items of part-time employment are: hidden unemployment and unintentional part-time employment.
In case of hidden unemployment, the principle of seasonal work or temporary work is applied. In this case, in spite of the fact that the person works, he does not receive any benefits prescribed by the state law, and cannot hope to continue working.
Unintentional part-time employment means working on a permanent basis, but without the ability to fully work out the working day. This situation arises due to the lack of jobs, if possible, simplify the work and hire someone else for part of the working time.
Shift work
A shift schedule is a full-fledged work schedule, in which working hours may vary on different working days. Usually shift work is used in factories and businesses that cannot stop the workflow. Also examples would be work: in a hospital, on a railroad.
Permission for an enterprise to use a shift schedule is spelled out in the legislation by a special clause and has a number of restrictions compared to a regular working day. The shift schedule provides for a limitation of the number of working hours per week, there should be no more than 40. Working two shifts in a row is strictly prohibited.
In general, such a schedule is no different from normal work. The employee is entitled to the benefits prescribed by law, and also receives allowances when working on night shifts. Most often, employees overlap each other's time, that is, they take on work before the shift leaves it. The main legislative requirement in relation to shift schedules is to take the maximum break between work shifts, allocate one day off every 5-7 days, and also familiarize the employee with the shift schedule a month before the schedule is put into effect.
The legislation does not regulate the duration of the shift, this issue is decided by the employer, the restriction is imposed only on the category of people with disabilities. It is worth remembering that work only at night, for example, as a watchman, is not shiftable. Doing work like this is dividing the working day into parts.
