Starving Now

[morlogs]

What is the name of your state? California.
I have worked as a Maintenance Custodian at a Public K-12 school for the last 7 years. My job was reduced from 8 hrs w/benifits to 5 hours w/o benifits and now 1 hour w/o benifits over the period of the last school year. My employer has now decided that the work still needs to be done so he has contracted with an outside person to do jobs that have always been part of my job by job description. Since I'm still working there in the same capacity that I always have been, it seems to me, these hours should have been offered back to me as the holder of the original position. In other words, can my employer lay me off and then hire someone to backfill the position they just reduced or laid off. It doesn.t seem right to do that. Anybody ever heard of this?
Thanks
KG

 

[cbg]

Unless you have a bona fide contract, union or otherwise, that guarantees you to have your hours increased before they can outsource the job, it is the employer's option which way to go. There is nothing in the law that requires them to give you your hours back before they can hire someone else. Sorry.

 

[morlogs]

re starving now

Thanx cbg. I'll have to look into the contract thing. I know we have a so-called contract as the Classified Workers bargaining unit but our "union" is not supported by the California State Employees Assoc. (CSEA) because they don't represent our district. Thanx for the quick response to my post.

morlogs