barnabee wrote:Change of career during mid life crisis and love being out and about delivering. Started a couple of months ago and have only just found this forum - it's really informative and more down to earth/honest than the 'glossy Courier magazine' that arrived through the door last week.
Have had loads of support from my colleagues at work but find some of the working practices in Royal Mail a bit strange. No doubt I'll find a few more!
The one hour contract is terrible but it was a foot in the door. Have got 8 hours work this week - the bank manager will be pleased. I hate it when the phone doesn't ring (indicating there is no work for me that day). It's like being in America in the Great Depression.
Still - there are people far worse off than me on the walks I've been covering. Hello to everyone and nice to meet you all.
This is a joke right? 1hr contract??? get back on the dole or go to college and learn another trade. This is disgusting
mailsort6 wrote:I think that one hour contracts are disgusting a man/woman needs to decent living wage. It is about time that legalisation was introduced stating that employers have to employ people for more than 5 hours. One hour contracts to me is a way of explioting workers by getting around not paying them the national minimum wage.
Forty hours pay for a "one hour contract" is probably near enough the same pay as forty hours for a regular full time employee. The big problem comes if the one-hour contract employee goes sick or is made redundant.
mailsort6 wrote:I think that one hour contracts are disgusting a man/woman needs to decent living wage. It is about time that legalisation was introduced stating that employers have to employ people for more than 5 hours. One hour contracts to me is a way of explioting workers by getting around not paying them the national minimum wage.
Forty hours pay for a "one hour contract" is probably near enough the same pay as forty hours for a regular full time employee. The big problem comes if the one-hour contract employee goes sick or is made redundant.
if my £2.70 CWU dues is pro-rata does that mean when he joins he only pays . 6p or 7p per week. See everything has a bright side
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barnabee wrote:Hi POSTMAN, thank you - the one hour contract is the minimum work I am contracted to do. My very first weekly pay statement was for one hours work - a total of £6.31 after stoppages.
Of course I am asked to do extra hours to cover for people on leave,sick etc. The main disadvantage is everything is pro rata so I don't qualify for any paid Annual leave, get no sickness pay, no bank holiday pay and at present cannot join the pension scheme (I think that may be to do with other matters though). The hours I work varies from week to week, sometimes it's good, sometimes not so good. Hopefully there will be lots of hours available in the run up to Xmas.
I don't know how long I will be kept on a one hour contract for but I am on trial for a 6 month period. I love the job, the novelty still hasn't worn off. However I would like a little more stability for my family and be able to plan things a little better rather than waiting for the phone to ring each morning.
The guys at work have been great with some of them offering me their door to doors so I can get a bit more money.
I'm not moaning by the way - a job is a job at the moment and I am proud to be postie.
Hmmm...sounds like youre being used m8. I thought this type of practice was outlawed? Its the same as people waiting outside the building and being picked at random. Only at Royal Mail.
We have em at our place and its a bloddy liberty. Baldy and crozier should be bloody ashamed (pair of two bob bar sterwads and if I see em i will tell me that as well) on 3million a pop whilst these poor sods do an hour contract. Shocking :cfo :cfo :cfo :lfo :lfo :lfo :lfo :lfo :lfo :lfo :lfo :lfo :cfo :cfo :cfo :cfo
"I once asked a girl if she was an undertaker cos i had a stiff that needed seeing too"
" I once went into a watch menders, slapped me knob on the desk and said can you put a couple of hands on that?"
dvbuk55 wrote:I heard tell of B&Q with 0 hours contracts you went to work if called - wonder what a 1 hour contract looks like - Something like - you are entitled to nothing, we will give you 1 hours pay a week and you will work as many hours as we want. How on earth have the union allowed this practice to sneak in - I mean there should be a minimum of 25 hour contracts and all vacancies should be advertised for the hours presently agreed BUT as we all know full time duties are being lapsed and part time contracts being offered to new entrants, just another rip off by RM being ignored by the CWU.
Is it any wonder that subscriptions are falling.
Do we have a CWU rep who can explain this one? Whover aloud this in should be put up a wall and spanked!
"I once asked a girl if she was an undertaker cos i had a stiff that needed seeing too"
" I once went into a watch menders, slapped me knob on the desk and said can you put a couple of hands on that?"
dvbuk55 wrote:I heard tell of B&Q with 0 hours contracts you went to work if called - wonder what a 1 hour contract looks like - Something like - you are entitled to nothing, we will give you 1 hours pay a week and you will work as many hours as we want. How on earth have the union allowed this practice to sneak in - I mean there should be a minimum of 25 hour contracts and all vacancies should be advertised for the hours presently agreed BUT as we all know full time duties are being lapsed and part time contracts being offered to new entrants, just another rip off by RM being ignored by the CWU.
Is it any wonder that subscriptions are falling.
Do we have a CWU rep who can explain this one? Whover aloud this in should be put up a wall and spanked!
I don't think we should reward such poor performance
Part Time and Full Time (regardless of contracted hours).
I was on a 6hr contract and was made up to 25Hrs when I started cutting off and working to my contracted hours. I would do the same, come in for a quick bit of sorting and go home after the hour. They should soon make your hours up.
Remember they are getting away with 1hr contracts and 6hr contracts because people let them.
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