Hi, The care home I work in, has been down with intake of residents for a few months now, so the home must be running at a lost? We have a meeting next week and I have a strange feeling hours are going to be cut or worse still the home closing up and maybe lose my job. As i have never had a contract, i was wondering what my rights are. Do I have any at all. Any advice appreciated thanks.
Oh yes, you have a contract - it's just that a lot of yours is based upon custom and practice factors.
How long have you continuously worked there is the main question we need to know.
Then you are covered by the unfair dismissal legislation, and in the event of being redundant, would be entitled to a redundancy payment. Unfortunately the minimum payments under statutory legislation are not huge sums of money.
Without any other documentation, your statutory notice period is 4 weeks notice - or money in lieu of this.
Hope things go well next week.