Does anyone require a minimum number of hours/days/shifts of availability for their part-time staff to retain employment? For example, if after a year of working X,Y, and Z shifts, they can now only work Z... do you part ways or keep them on for just Z shifts?
We have an availability policy for our PT people that they must be available at least 2 full weekends each month and 3 weekday shifts (day or evening) per week for 3 weeks out of the month. This doesn't mean they will be scheduled that much just that they are available if we need them. We are not allow to add headcount even with our part time people so if they have a massive change in availability we cannot afford to keep them on. Most of the time we are able to work with the staff member to meet these requirements. Also since this is an availability policy rather than min hours we can work with the staff on a case by case basis. For example we have a couple students and leading up to finals they will give us the availability but ask that we only schedule them if we absolutely need them and we can usually work around that.