According to our scheduling agreement at Airtours, monthly rosters for the following month are supposed to be issued on the first of the month.
In practice it has never happened and rosters generally appear some time between the 14-22 of the month. The new management target is the 14th, which was achieved last month.
This gives 2 to 6 weeks notice, to plan your life. However roster changes can make a mess of the plans!
(I got a rewritten roster a week later!)
A revolving roster, whereby you are given the new end week i.e. say week six, on a weekly basis, preferably by e-mail would offer increased flexibility (& hopefully greater stability) to companies and more notice to staff.
Any rosters out there care to comment?