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Celgar
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Post by Celgar »

There is current national policy of no overtime to be paid on Saturday & Monday while the current trial is ongoing. Three more weekends including this coming weekend then we go back to doing the job properly I think.
There is not a national no overtime policy for the remaining days of the week. There is not a reason to not pay overtime if it is required to clear the mail backlog in a DO. Maybe its a case of the DOM trying to preserve or increase their bonus.
The views I express here are mine alone and do not represent the views of Royal Mail Group.
Cucumber
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Post by Cucumber »

Any overtime you want at ours.
A2B
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Post by A2B »

Celgar wrote:There is current national policy of no overtime to be paid on Saturday & Monday while the current trial is ongoing
There's no overtime paid on delivery if you go over your time, there's still overtime if they want you to work rest days.
A2B
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Post by A2B »

Chelseablue wrote:Pal in other office bin told , if you finish early , you have to come in early next day to make it up
Well you know that's not enforceable, there's no banking of hours :arrrghhh
twoloops
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Post by twoloops »

Not in our office the going rate was 3 hours a loop today.
HTPostman
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Post by HTPostman »

Seems to be OT here if you’re PT and doing a FT round, you get the hours up to full time but no extra on top.
The day is gonna come when we’re all gonna have to testify.

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Grumpyoldmailman
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Post by Grumpyoldmailman »

The usual few get as much as they want up here, I guess it all comes down to staffing levels in each individual offices.
Frankie15
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Post by Frankie15 »

Staffing or SHAFTING????
Jpro747
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Post by Jpro747 »

Haven’t heard anything from our dom, they do not communicate with us :thumbdown
rambo1
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Post by rambo1 »

Ashley’s wrote:In our office we haven’t had overtime for around 6 weeks! Been told to work to our time and we are not needed to work our days off!
Jeez where are you putting all the stuff you have no time to deliver?
rambo1
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Post by rambo1 »

Chelseablue wrote:Pal in other office bin told , if you finish early , you have to come in early next day to make it up
Finish early? What's that? Where's your office?
rambo1
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Post by rambo1 »

Celgar wrote:There is current national policy of no overtime to be paid on Saturday & Monday while the current trial is ongoing. Three more weekends including this coming weekend then we go back to doing the job properly I think.
There is not a national no overtime policy for the remaining days of the week. There is not a reason to not pay overtime if it is required to clear the mail backlog in a DO. Maybe its a case of the DOM trying to preserve or increase their bonus.
No ot on Monday? That's a laugh. Regularly claiming 2hrs Monday to catch up packets left on Saturday plus 2days mail. Busiest day of the week.
Chelseablue
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Post by Chelseablue »

Rambo lol if you read the post its not my office , away and do youre overtime !
barcajr
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Post by barcajr »

Plenty of OT in my office, even asking people who are on annual leave to come in and work a day
andyman606
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Post by andyman606 »

Who's bright idea was it to accept a one off payment years ago and then get paid less per hour for doing overtime past full-time hours where you get paid upto 20-25% less per hour making a 7hr rest day working only actually pay you 5:5 hours.
This is the only job where you get paid less for doing overtime....what's the logic in that....some of the ghosting probably makes up for this but still...... should we not at least be paid our hourly rate for any overtime this subject never seems to come up?