Well.....

..... An official meeting was held today to discuss the proposed 'Lean Cleaning' plan.

The outcome is that my hours are not going to be cut. They are to be vastly altered (three days I will be working a six hour shift from 6-AM and other days a four hour one starting at 12-NOON) but they are not going to be cut.
     There will also be vast changes in the structure of daily tasks, which are going to be finalized within the next few weeks (to be printed out on special individual "task cards"; one per cleaner) with a view of bringing in Lean Cleaning officially by 22nd December of this year.

I have no clue how this is going to work. The resulting effectiveness of cutting some jobs out completely (considering that nobody else will bother doing them and that with an overall drop of four hours per week we will no longer have time, nor the permission to reclaim them even if we did) is doubtful; as is trying to clean the store during the afternoon when the store will presumably be choc-a-block with customers.

BUT:
     My hours are staying at 30.
     And I will have clear, consise instructions to follow that (no matter how silly, counterproductive or inconvenient they may be) no Store manager will have the authority to argue with.
     And I should have a proper conrtact signed and sealed by 22nd December.

.....That'll do me.....

Alice x