Business plan to save hours.

[melter]

yes and get him to go to disagreement on it asap. status quo has to remain till disagreement is sorted. oh and stand for rep...

[dvbuk55]

Go on who's the wag who used the words "Business Plan" - the plan at the moment seems to be to stagger from day to day sticking their finger in the dyke.

[scottyb]

business plan my ass more like a smash and grab exercise of the workers terms and conditions.

[trythat]

When ever we've had to cut hours, we generally have some that would like to do less hours, if so we try and get them a buy down type thing, we've just had 8 or 9 do this, some now work a week about, so they now officially work 24 hours, and a couple also dropped down to 30 hours, most of the people who did this, have worked for RM 15 years plus, and got between £10000 and £15000, and they just have to do 2 years and then they can bugger off, and of course they can also do OT if its available.

The best thing is some of these people are over 60, so they get their pension as well!

Can I ask, who is doing the work that the people who had a buy down of hours no longer do?

At the moment, we don't always clear in the time, so all the office is called round to sort. We point out everytime this is done that we don't have enough sorting hours - either nights or morning, but its like talking to a deaf post, apparently this is what flexibilty etc is all about, you must work a full pelt all the time, if more people started to do the job correctly and stop coming back early, we would have more leverage.

[dounome]

Just to let you know i sent these proposals out to my area rep on saturday by special delivery, its now wednesday and i havent even had the courtesy of a phone call. I did tell him in the letter that we were having the meeting on tuesday and i wanted some advice before then. Not surprised though because he hasnt got the best of reputations for helping the people he's supposed to.
He wont get my vote.