changing duty hours from 35 to 20

[Duckins]

I have been on my current duty over a year now and have heard that the duty my be reduced from 35 hours down to 20 hours. My question is can this be done and if I decide to stay on the duty at 20 hours will they give me the money for a buy down of hours. Thanks

[db]

I have been on my current duty over a year now and have heard that the duty my be reduced from 35 hours down to 20 hours. My question is can this be done and if I decide to stay on the duty at 20 hours will they give me the money for a buy down of hours. Thanks

What is your "CONTRACTED" hours?

[Duckins]

Im on a 35 hour contract

[db]

Im on a 35 hour contract

They may offer you a buy down or move you to another 35 hour duty

[Duckins]

Cheers, that sort of concludes what I was thinking the options were. They are squeezing so many hours out of our office, they have aready done a reduction on 2 duties last week

[UnhappyGremlin]

It's unlikely they'll pay you to buy down. They may offer to 'allow you' to stay on the duty, but only if you'd agree to doing so for free. That's what they offered a postie in my office.

[arnold cheshire]

I have been on my current duty over a year now and have heard that the duty my be reduced from 35 hours down to 20 hours. My question is can this be done and if I decide to stay on the duty at 20 hours will they give me the money for a buy down of hours. Thanks

your duty will be reduced thats all you wont be on it face it

[chrisj]

'The' duty is being changed. It is not anyone's duty. We should all be flexible enough to do any duty unless of course the said duty was always a duty that should not have been 35 hours.

Unless there is a huge christmas tip, I really cannot understand why anyone will want to go down in hours to get a particular duty

[UnhappyGremlin]

'The' duty is being changed. It is not anyone's duty. We should all be flexible enough to do any duty unless of course the said duty was always a duty that should not have been 35 hours.

Unless there is a huge christmas tip, I really cannot understand why anyone will want to go down in hours to get a particular duty

The Xmas tips would have to total £4000 or more to make it worthwhile.
Unless the person in question wants to reduce hours to go into a sort of semi retirement, then it makes zero sense.

[clashcityrocker]

I really cannot understand why anyone will want to go down in hours to get a particular duty

Breakfast?

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Unless there is a huge christmas tip, I really cannot understand why anyone will want to go down in hours to get a particular duty

Comfort, wary of change, poor communication of the impact of a revision from management, lack of information etc etc. Few people are comfortable with change of any sort and sometimes, just having an anchor like staying on a duty you know is enough, and sometimes the unscrupulous use that to their advantage.

[arnold cheshire]

'The' duty is being changed. It is not anyone's duty. We should all be flexible enough to do any duty unless of course the said duty was always a duty that should not have been 35 hours.

Unless there is a huge christmas tip, I really cannot understand why anyone will want to go down in hours to get a particular duty

The Xmas tips would have to total £4000 or more to make it worthwhile.
Unless the person in question wants to reduce hours to go into a sort of semi retirement, then it makes zero sense.

are you for real ?

[UnhappyGremlin]

'The' duty is being changed. It is not anyone's duty. We should all be flexible enough to do any duty unless of course the said duty was always a duty that should not have been 35 hours.

Unless there is a huge christmas tip, I really cannot understand why anyone will want to go down in hours to get a particular duty

The Xmas tips would have to total £4000 or more to make it worthwhile.
Unless the person in question wants to reduce hours to go into a sort of semi retirement, then it makes zero sense.

are you for real ?

Yes. What would you like explained?

[Darren Bent]

a 60 years old postman wouldn't like to work full time and he probably take buy down to reduce his work to 28 hours then he can do work 2 hours less every day and make it is easier on his body, Not that hard to explain.

[chrisj]

I accept (more) the postulation from TrueBlue. And I do understand the possibility that the postie might have had about enough of the job or does not even need RM full-time job... And that does not necessarily have to be about age... I know an under 50 who has reduced from 32 to 27.5 to get a particular duty or be more senior in a repick.

The problem for me is that, a minority of people within delivery are expected to be flexible and take all the crap jobs and rarely gets any saturdays off whereas some just wants to keep their privilege and some of those are cheeky enough to have a go at new starters and reserves and others.

We should all be flexible - that will be the fair thing. Jobs do change and people should try their best to adapt with change. I know a postie that was so stressed with using a PDA that he took some many weeks off as a consequence. All the postie needed was re-training and mentoring and a sympathetic manager. But if the person still cannot cope, should he then be allowed to use paper when everyone else is using a PDA?

* Before people go on about seniority, there are some seniors that have never been reserves or being messed about as much as we have these days. The job has changed more dramatically in the last 5-7 years; so not all seniors have suffered.

Anyways, seniority does not work very well towards the bottom.