It’s easier to check your extra hours, overtime work and holiday compensation, when you’ve written down your work shifts yourself.
Real life stories
Be sure that your work shifts aren’t changed
Alisa works as a chambermaid in a hotel. She has a full time contract, yet she didn’t get enough working hours. Her supervisor often sent her home in the middle of her working shift, even if other workers who had arrived after her got to stay. In addition, the supervisor often cancelled her work shifts.
Alisa contacted PAM because she couldn’t get by with her salary. PAM contacted the employer and informed them that Alisa had to get the shifts guaranteed to her in her work agreement. In addition, Alisa had to receive compensation for loss of earnings, because her work shifts were constantly changed. The employer shouldn’t have hired new employees, since extra work should have been offered to the employees already in the company.
Alisa and the other employees in the company eventually received the shifts and extra hours they were promised. The supervisor no longer cancelled her shifts nor sent her home in the middle of the day.
Write your working shifts down and save your pay slips
Marianna works as a waitress in a café with class C rights for alcohol serving. When she started, she signed a work contract which entitled her for 6 Euros per hour. After her trial period, her hourly wage would rise to 7 Euros.
Marianna was called in when she was needed. According to the work contract, she was to work between 9 am and 2 pm on workdays and weekends, and the salary was always the same. Marianna was in charge for the cashier’s duties, storage as well as other tasks in the café.
Later on, the employer expanded the business and opened a licensed restaurant with full rights for alcohol serving. Marianna still worked for the same salary, that is 7 Euros per hour.
Suddenly, Marianna fell ill and received a sick leave. She delivered a doctor’s certificate to the employer, but the employer refused to pay for the sick leave. Luckily, Marianna was a member of PAM. She immediately contacted PAM’s office and her situation was examined. Marianna had taken her work agreement and sick leave certificate with her.
PAM noticed immediately that the employer paid her too little. In addition, she hadn’t been paid for evening work, extra work and Sunday work. Sick leave pay was also not taken care of.
