Shift work

New and updated

• Date:

  27 November 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Police sector: Shift and night working

  We look at how shift and night working operates in the police sector and some of the initiatives aimed at reducing the potential negative impact of such working patterns.

• Date:

  12 November 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Shift working survey 2019: Pay and working patterns

  Our analysis examines the use of shift working and how organisations manage employees who work varying hours and days.

• Type:

  How to

  How to set up, manage and review a shift system

  Practical guidance on employing shift workers, including shift patterns; shift premiums; and night work.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Introduce a shift system

• Type:

  Tasks

  Introduce a shift swap policy

• Type:

  Employment glossary

  Shift swapping

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Type:

  FAQs

  If a part-time or shift-working employee is not scheduled to work on a bank holiday, are they entitled to an additional day's holiday?

• Date:

  7 August 2009

  Type:

  Law reports

  Disability discrimination: Night-shift working was normal day-to-day activity

  In Chief Constable of Dumfries & Galloway Constabulary v Adams EATS/0046/08, the Scottish EAT held that a police officer with myalgic encephalomyelitis whose symptoms caused him mobility problems at the end of night shifts was a disabled person for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Shift-swap policy

  A model HR policy to set out the process by which employees can agree to swap shifts with colleagues.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Shift-swap agreement form

  A model HR form for employees to request a shift swap.