Some of the older guys in our office have been asking about job share, as in doing 3 days each a week each. A couple of weeks ago we had a visit from some guy from RM explaining the basics of DM26 as we are due to start sometime in October, the opportunity of job share was put to him & he basically turned it down flat saying that the business doesn’t like job share and it is too costly. When pressed on this & asked how can it be costly when obviously you don’t need a day off cover he just continued to say “no the business won’t have it as it’s too costly” but couldn’t explain how.
Does anyone on here know why a job share of 3 days a week is too costly to the business? Does anyone think that we can legitimately push for this? Is it just a case that it’s another thing for the planning team to try & incorporate & it will save them a headache by just dismissing it from the beginning.
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hazzeem025
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Re: Job Share
Without a doubt they can't be arsed to try and plan it out. We're in a similar situation in our D.O, we stand to lose our 4 day weeks. Just because the management/planners can't be bothered to figure out new rotas!
Martin Walsh came on here and said EVERY D.O would have the opportunity to vote on 9 different duty patterns. Funny thing is when it came to vote on these '9 patterns', it had been whittled down to 3 by the planners. Planners excuse was the other 6 options wouldn't work for our D.O.
And how the f**k do these 'planners' actually know anything about how a D.O works? It's basically the same s**t as always. If it requires a little bit of effort and thinking outside the box, then Management aren't interested. Surely having an office of staff that are happy with their attendance patterns, makes them more productive?
I honestly don't see why the CWU thinks this 2 in 5 Saturdays is all of a sudden the gold standard for staff that work in delivery offices? It's a piss poor f***ing bribe, from an out of touch piss poor union.
Martin Walsh came on here and said EVERY D.O would have the opportunity to vote on 9 different duty patterns. Funny thing is when it came to vote on these '9 patterns', it had been whittled down to 3 by the planners. Planners excuse was the other 6 options wouldn't work for our D.O.
And how the f**k do these 'planners' actually know anything about how a D.O works? It's basically the same s**t as always. If it requires a little bit of effort and thinking outside the box, then Management aren't interested. Surely having an office of staff that are happy with their attendance patterns, makes them more productive?
I honestly don't see why the CWU thinks this 2 in 5 Saturdays is all of a sudden the gold standard for staff that work in delivery offices? It's a piss poor f***ing bribe, from an out of touch piss poor union.