Good Friday Help

nobodies hero · Post by **nobodies hero** » 11 Mar 2008, 20:15

I work at wolverhampton and we the late guys have been told we can work good friday or have the day off it's our choice.

But the early drivers have been told they must work good friday, if they fail to turn up they will be treated as u/a and pay docked from them.
How can RM say some can have it off with pay and others will not be payed if they don't turn up !!!!

I need advice for my friends on this.

Cheers any help grateful

madelin4 · Post by **madelin4** » 11 Mar 2008, 20:33

umm, well i know a sheet goes up in our place and you can put your name down if you want to come in and sort, mayb thats what he meant

Drunk · Post by **Drunk** » 11 Mar 2008, 20:57

As far as our place goes you put your name down if you want to work.

As its a bank holiday you are not obliged to work, our night shift finish at midnight and return Fri/Sat midnight, only a hand full of dutys have to work as they will be out on runs and dont return till after midnight, the other 2 shifts are O/T.

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 12 Mar 2008, 15:41

No ones working in our place. It's an unwritten law. Either we all get asked in just as we did in the past, or none of us turn in.

Post by **rhino49** » 12 Mar 2008, 16:02

nobodies hero wrote:I work at wolverhampton and we the late guys have been told we can work good friday or have the day off it's our choice.

But the early drivers have been told they must work good friday, if they fail to turn up they will be treated as u/a and pay docked from them.
How can RM say some can have it off with pay and others will not be payed if they don't turn up !!!!

I need advice for my friends on this.

Cheers any help grateful

I suspect this will be a judgement similar to the way we planned industrial action - by early drivers, do you mean shifts starting before midnight on Thursday - if so they complete their shift that will actually go into Good Friday but do not go in on the one that would start before Friday midnight. If their whole shift is within the 24 hours of good friday I cannot see any reason to dock them pay if they don't go in as it is a public holiday.

Post by **rhino49** » 12 Mar 2008, 16:14

DOM has posted a notice that overtime may be available for Good Friday and has asked for volunteers to put their names up. Usual format has been that we have a 6 hour duty with approximately one third of the staff from the office in - if it's over subscribed names come out of the hat and we then split the duty between IPS and prepping three walks each ready for saturday which is usually a killer. It's always an early start with no deliveries so we can be home in time to do something with the rest of the day (for example - worry about what a s**t day Saturday will be).

Post by **dvbuk55** » 12 Mar 2008, 16:26

TBH I don't think we even do a collection on Good Friday- why don't we work GF and have Sat off so that we get a 3 day weekend?

Post by **rhino49** » 12 Mar 2008, 16:28

wrote:TBH I don't think we even do a collection on Good Friday- why don't we work GF and have Sat off so that we get a 3 day weekend?

What a f***ing excellent idea dvbuk55

We can rename it Postie's bank holiday weekend

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 12 Mar 2008, 16:33

rhino49 wrote:
wrote:TBH I don't think we even do a collection on Good Friday- why don't we work GF and have Sat off so that we get a 3 day weekend?
What a f***ing excellent idea dvbuk55 We can rename it Postie's bank holiday weekend

Good in priciple but would not work on my walk as all Safe Drops are shops and will be closed.

But otherwise damn fine idea

Post by **dvbuk55** » 12 Mar 2008, 17:56

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
rhino49 wrote:
wrote:TBH I don't think we even do a collection on Good Friday- why don't we work GF and have Sat off so that we get a 3 day weekend?
What a f***ing excellent idea dvbuk55 We can rename it Postie's bank holiday weekend

Good in priciple but would not work on my walk as all Safe Drops are shops and will be closed. But otherwise damn fine idea

They aren't going to do it of course but as a matter of interest what did you do for bag drops when we did deliver Good Friday?

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 12 Mar 2008, 18:05

dvbuk55 wrote:
TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
rhino49 wrote:
wrote:TBH I don't think we even do a collection on Good Friday- why don't we work GF and have Sat off so that we get a 3 day weekend?
What a f***ing excellent idea dvbuk55 We can rename it Postie's bank holiday weekend

Good in priciple but would not work on my walk as all Safe Drops are shops and will be closed. But otherwise damn fine idea
They aren't going to do it of course but as a matter of interest what did you do for bag drops when we did deliver Good Friday?

Was not in then but apparently they used the post boxes on the walk as it was always light compared to now and the walk was very different apparently.

Fluke · Post by **Fluke** » 13 Mar 2008, 05:19

IWW Fellow Worker wrote:No ones working in our place. It's an unwritten law. Either we all get asked in just as we did in the past, or none of us turn in.

That's how we do it in my office

Darren Bent · Post by **Darren Bent** » 16 Mar 2008, 21:09

Lovely idea about working on Friday and getting saturday off.

woofwoof · Post by **woofwoof** » 17 Mar 2008, 18:03

i thought they got rid of good friday working a couple of years ago for everyone and when we did work it was time and half and day in lieu or double time and half plus your normal hours

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