WRC declines to recommend changes to security company's overtime allocation

The WRC declined to recommend a change to how a security company allocates overtime after a worker said colleagues who accepted flat-rate overtime terms received more shifts. The recommendation was dated 28 June 2021. The company said the worker had a 39-hour contract, had sometimes been offered extra hours and would continue to receive his contracted hours. The adjudicator noted he had received overtime on occasion, though possibly less than colleagues, and found no direct evidence that colleagues had been coerced into changing their terms. The WRC found there was no right to overtime and that allocating extra hours was at the company’s discretion.