MANAGERS REWARDED £100 AND 1 DAY A/L FOR STRIKE COVER !!!!

[bigjames]

Point taken, Post office counter managers and Royal Mail Managers are different. In respects of bonus payments at least.

I do agree that you should have been paid for the hours you worked. I do not disagree with that. So If I have read what you write correctly, when you worked to cover strike action, you did not get paid anything for attending your place of work?

If that is the case, yes you should have been paid, if however you got paid for the hours you were there then wether you were serving on the counter or tapping paper work up in the back office, you got paid for doing a job.

Sorry if we disagree on that one but there we go. If you ask a person in your branch to do a different job to what they normally do, do you pay them docket on top of their normal wage even if they do not work any extra hours?

If a member of my team steps up and acts at a higher grade, they would not only be paid for the hours they do, but they would also get extra money to push their pay up to the equivalent for the grade of work they would be doing. If they do another job within the office that is normally done by their grade they would only get paid for the hours that they work. For a manager the substitution process is the same, but if we spend time doing work that other, lower grades would normally do, we just have to do it. During the strike action we were expected, within reason, to do whatever it took to keep our offices open. That meant putting in longer hours to do both the other grades work and our own, with no prospect of getting paid for the extra hours, apart from the usual TOIL arrangements, which as I have described before mean that we have to 16 weeks to take back the time or then claim docket. So on occasion I guess I was working without being paid, although in about 9 weeks time if I haven't clawed back the time I may be able to take the docket then!

There is a debate, and quite rightly, about whether the counter managers should have been rewarded for the work we put in to maintain the service to the public. I for one worked bloody hard over the summer, losing a lot of quality time with my family in the process, and it would have been nice to have been paid accordingly, a reward on top(which I didn't get) would not have been unwelcome.

[billyhayes]

That does seem to take the piss out of you there.

I know a 'scab' office where no-one went out at all, and the managers both went about there usual duties, AND got the extra day and the £100!

They were quite blase about the whole thing.

You need to get onto your BDM.

Ask "What was the criteria by the way, that determined who did and did not get it?"

[PostmanPat1961]

As a branch manager I did receive an invitation to apply for a extra day off plus the £100. I have since left the business and never received either although I did apply in plenty of time. If they had given me £100 I would have taken the staff out for a drink but I never received it so we all lost out. I never took the extra day off either because we did not have the staff for me to get it.