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39hr week

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Broxi51
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Re: 39hr week

Post by Broxi51 »

If one office in the UK gets their 39 hour week implemented then the rest of us will be on a different pay rate. I thought that would be illegal :hmmmm
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Re: 39hr week

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Broxi51 wrote:If one office in the UK gets their 39 hour week implemented then the rest of us will be on a different pay rate. I thought that would be illegal :hmmmm
You could I suppose get the CWU to mount a legal campaign, in that you are being discriminated against because you are being treated differently, but then you would just fall into the "winners and losers" category which seems to be the current flavour.
Cheetah
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Re: 39hr week

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trythat wrote:We've just started our walksorter revision, ready for late September, and the 39hr week will come in then, looks as though the hour will come out with a few minutes aday, which I believe it will be 12 minutes per day.
Problem is they don't intend to take any work off you just say it's a 39 hr week now instead of a 40 hr :no no :no no
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Re: 39hr week

Post by post_bitch »

i dont see what the big deal is its only going to be somehing liek 12 minutes each day - and u will either finish earlier or you jsut going to come in earlier anyway !

i think we all know 12 minutes a day is nothing and you probably wont even bother using it bcos u know if u do youll fall behing and be out the door that little bit later :so there
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ziko
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Re: 39hr week

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u'll get it when were all privatised :sad:
Big Daz
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Re: 39hr week

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39 Hour week

8 hours Saturday

31 hours weekdays = 2 X 7 hours 30 mins + 2 X 8 hours

How does a FT fit a 4.5 hour shared van duty into that :hmmmm
dvbuk55
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Re: 39hr week

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It may be helpful to the revision process if there was some definitive answer to the 1 hour less per week. The reduction could then be built into the unsequenced revision more easily when the sequenced revision allows the reduction - if it is only 12 minutes a day then it doesn't really matter, nobody is going to notice it are they. :roll:
fishtank
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Re: 39hr week

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Big Daz wrote:39 Hour week

8 hours Saturday

31 hours weekdays = 2 X 7 hours 30 mins + 2 X 8 hours

How does a FT fit a 4.5 hour shared van duty into that :hmmmm
That is a good question Daz.
Anything less than 4hrs and park & loop becomes very inefficient.
So....what would be your answer if the bikes are going?
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Re: 39hr week

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There is no answer, RML are relying on take up of attendance options that would lengthen the the working day.

Perahps PT will have to prep FT duties :left:
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Re: 39hr week

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Big Daz wrote:There is no answer, RML are relying on take up of attendance options that would lengthen the the working day.

Perahps PT will have to prep FT duties :left:
Your right Daz so if the majority of us numpties decide we don't want longer attendances....and that would seem to be the majority position in my D.O.
Where does that leave the future of Park&Loop?.....London. :nervous :chuckle
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Re: 39hr week

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fishtank wrote:
Big Daz wrote:There is no answer, RML are relying on take up of attendance options that would lengthen the the working day.

Perahps PT will have to prep FT duties :left:
Your right Daz so if the majority of us numpties decide we don't want longer attendances....and that would seem to be the majority position in my D.O.
Where does that leave the future of Park&Loop?.....London. :nervous :chuckle
Am I being numb here? Whatever your attendance is as a FT on a 7.5 or 8 hour day, there is ample time for a 4.5 hour delivery and more, your indoor spec will be adjusted accordingly surely, with WSM especially because that is when your 39 hour week is implemented.
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Re: 39hr week

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dvbuk55 wrote:
Am I being numb here? Whatever your attendance is as a FT on a 7.5 or 8 hour day, there is ample time for a 4.5 hour delivery and more, your indoor spec will be adjusted accordingly surely, with WSM especially because that is when your 39 hour week is implemented.
The problem is dvb with a 7.5 hr day minus meal relief and travelling your down to approx 6hrs 20mins for both indoor and outdoor work.
If you have a 4hr30 span that leaves you with 1 hr 50mins for all indoor tasks including IPS.
Even WSM cannot produce those kinds of results so something will have to give.
I suspect one out of every two will be prepping the duties which is fine....unless you have a high level of part-time staff.
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Re: 39hr week

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fishtank wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
Am I being numb here? Whatever your attendance is as a FT on a 7.5 or 8 hour day, there is ample time for a 4.5 hour delivery and more, your indoor spec will be adjusted accordingly surely, with WSM especially because that is when your 39 hour week is implemented.
The problem is dvb with a 7.5 hr day minus meal relief and travelling your down to approx 6hrs 20mins for both indoor and outdoor work.
If you have a 4hr30 span that leaves you with 1 hr 50mins for all indoor tasks including IPS.
Even WSM cannot produce those kinds of results so something will have to give.
I suspect one out of every two will be prepping the duties which is fine....unless you have a high level of part-time staff.
Well I don't want to go into too much detail but I was amazed at the level the IPS was reduced to under the proposed revision for the sequenced mail when WSMs are operating and it was more than halved - in adiition to which the WSM staff are going to be prepping and IPS, if you have WSMs.
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Re: 39hr week

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dvbuk55 wrote:
fishtank wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
Am I being numb here? Whatever your attendance is as a FT on a 7.5 or 8 hour day, there is ample time for a 4.5 hour delivery and more, your indoor spec will be adjusted accordingly surely, with WSM especially because that is when your 39 hour week is implemented.
The problem is dvb with a 7.5 hr day minus meal relief and travelling your down to approx 6hrs 20mins for both indoor and outdoor work.
If you have a 4hr30 span that leaves you with 1 hr 50mins for all indoor tasks including IPS.
Even WSM cannot produce those kinds of results so something will have to give.
I suspect one out of every two will be prepping the duties which is fine....unless you have a high level of part-time staff.
Well I don't want to go into too much detail but I was amazed at the level the IPS was reduced to under the proposed revision for the sequenced mail when WSMs are operating and it was more than halved - in adiition to which the WSM staff are going to be prepping and IPS, if you have WSMs.
Well...dvb you may be right and if you are then i wouldn't want to see what the span indicator throws up for a 10hr day. :nervous :nervous
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Re: 39hr week

Post by dvbuk55 »

fishtank wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
fishtank wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
Am I being numb here? Whatever your attendance is as a FT on a 7.5 or 8 hour day, there is ample time for a 4.5 hour delivery and more, your indoor spec will be adjusted accordingly surely, with WSM especially because that is when your 39 hour week is implemented.
The problem is dvb with a 7.5 hr day minus meal relief and travelling your down to approx 6hrs 20mins for both indoor and outdoor work.
If you have a 4hr30 span that leaves you with 1 hr 50mins for all indoor tasks including IPS.
Even WSM cannot produce those kinds of results so something will have to give.
I suspect one out of every two will be prepping the duties which is fine....unless you have a high level of part-time staff.
Well I don't want to go into too much detail but I was amazed at the level the IPS was reduced to under the proposed revision for the sequenced mail when WSMs are operating and it was more than halved - in adiition to which the WSM staff are going to be prepping and IPS, if you have WSMs.
Well...dvb you may be right and if you are then i wouldn't want to see what the span indicator throws up for a 10hr day. :nervous :nervous
Well as far as I know there isn't any moves afoot to move to a 10 hour day in our DO and so I don't think the revision has moved on that far yet, however, there is talk of hybrid duties, you know delivery, packets then a collection which will do away with SAs and they COULD be 10 hours but as I say we aren't at that stage yet.