And we wonder why UK has poor productivity record. Bad enough that this is being considered, but barking to think about applying it retrospectively. Do these people engage their brains first.....?
And on the same day RR announces that it's to cut 2600 jobs and we wonder why .
Do we?
"Company sources say that the aviation losses are more closely linked to a general cut in global defence spending, greater productivity after investment in new factories and an end of the development phase of the new Airbus A350 and Dreamliner engines."
HTH
@Northwind RR's biggest competitors are in the US, if we look at their labour laws we'll see a big differential with us here in the UK. I don't think you'll see overtime as holiday pay there and I suspect they don't even get 4 weeks holiday either. I am not in favour of zero hour contracts or of the use of "compulsory" overtime but rulings such as this just push more employers towards the former and either push up costs to the consumer or reduce employment/employment growth or indeed a bit of both
Ah right, so it's nothing to do with the reasons RR sources are giving. Glad we cleared [i]that[/i] up.
I am surprised that this got as far as it did. For compulsory overtime then maybe, but voluntary overtime I don't see why, it’s voluntary.
For a "normal" Monday to Friday job (even though I work shifts)a weeks holiday would cost you 5 days(or hours worth) of your holiday entitlement.
If people want paying for their Saturday overtime shift as well should they have to use another days Holiday?
The unions will herald it as a great success, as will the overtime factory cats (every factory has some, people who live for and by their overtime, always at work).
However when companies tighten up and vastly reduce overtime, or worse still bring in annualised hours contract (paid for a set number of hours per year, the company can move your days around to suit business needs and eliminated overtime), these people will not be so happy.
Either way it could take years to sort out, if it is even passed fully by the courts
[i]I don't think you'll see overtime as holiday pay there and I suspect they don't even get 4 weeks holiday either[/i]
and I reckon you've no idea what you are talking about
Their employment rules are totally different to ours, but also vary by state. For example the guys I worked with in NY got the same number of days off per year as we did, they just were called different things (vacation, personal days, family days etc).
[quote=b r said]For example the guys I worked with in NY got the same number of days off per year as we did, they just were called different things (vacation, personal days, family days etc).
All paid days off ?
