Banked hour system in a warehouse

[ringo110879]

Hi. I work within a warehouse where they have a banked hours system in place. This means that when a shift attends work in the morning the management can increase their shift from 9 hours up to 12. I know this is within the contract of employment but recently certain managers have been using this system to keep individuals behind more than the rest of the shift if they deem them not to have achieved their picking target. Seems a bit unfair to me as they are a lot of variables involved with the work and no two people are the same. Is it legal or victimisation? Thanks

[Simon_States]

Check your contract carefully. If it clearly states that this applies to the individual as opposed to the collective: the 'shift', ie every worker on that shift then I guess they can do it. However if this is the case surely the contract must then set out criteria for being able to keep someone on longer eg must pick a certain number of orders per hour etc.

[funnywebsite]

Are you getting paid for the extra hours? If not say you can't stay and go home.

[ringo110879]

They do pay us for them at the month end, that is unless work is short and they decide to send you home and use them. Place is a dump, i'm leaving.