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Pancake123
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Post by Pancake123 »

Hello,
Does anybody know if there is any afternoon shift allowance ? I m going to work 2-22, how much weekly should I get extra ?
Thank you :)
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Pancake123 wrote:Hello,
Does anybody know if there is any afternoon shift allowance ? I m going to work 2-22, how much weekly should I get extra ?
Thank you :)

Yes it's about £12 a week or something. Haven't looked it up for ages. Anytime worked after 20:00hrs brings extra money and starting before 5/5:30am.
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Navalron wrote:
Pancake123 wrote:Hello,
Does anybody know if there is any afternoon shift allowance ? I m going to work 2-22, how much weekly should I get extra ?
Thank you :)

Yes it's about £12 a week or something. Haven't looked it up for ages. Anytime worked after 20:00hrs brings extra money and starting before 5/5:30am.
Fairly sure it's after 21:00 and not 20:00
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Allowance times taken from various places in the Way Forward agreement:

Dawn shift (starts between 0201-0400)
Early shift (starts between 0401-0500)
Early shift (starts between 0501-0530)
Evening shift (finishes between 2000-2139)
Late shift (finishes between 2140-0159)
Night shift (three hours worked across 2300-0500)

[Two different flavours of early shift, the latter roughly getting half the allowance of the former. I haven't quoted the actual allowances, since they'll have changed, and depend on grade.]
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Post by Steve_claret »

Pancake123 wrote:Hello,
Does anybody know if there is any afternoon shift allowance ? I m going to work 2-22, how much weekly should I get extra ?
Thank you :)
If you finish your shift after 21:40 you will get the late shift allowance. I'm not 100% sure but I think it is currently about £48 per week which is also fully pensionable.
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Steve_claret wrote:
Pancake123 wrote:Hello,
Does anybody know if there is any afternoon shift allowance ? I m going to work 2-22, how much weekly should I get extra ?
Thank you :)
If you finish your shift after 21:40 you will get the late shift allowance. I'm not 100% sure but I think it is currently about £48 per week which is also fully pensionable.
I believe locally all late and evening shift are scheduled to finish just before 21:40
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Post by Steve_claret »

SpacePhoenix wrote:
Steve_claret wrote:
Pancake123 wrote:Hello,
Does anybody know if there is any afternoon shift allowance ? I m going to work 2-22, how much weekly should I get extra ?
Thank you :)
If you finish your shift after 21:40 you will get the late shift allowance. I'm not 100% sure but I think it is currently about £48 per week which is also fully pensionable.
I believe locally all late and evening shift are scheduled to finish just before 21:40
I can see why that would be in some MC's but in reality it all depends when the final despatch is timed at.
Some MC's late shifts are still 22:00 finish as that is when the final despatch is.
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Steve_claret wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:
Steve_claret wrote:
Pancake123 wrote:Hello,
Does anybody know if there is any afternoon shift allowance ? I m going to work 2-22, how much weekly should I get extra ?
Thank you :)
If you finish your shift after 21:40 you will get the late shift allowance. I'm not 100% sure but I think it is currently about £48 per week which is also fully pensionable.
I believe locally all late and evening shift are scheduled to finish just before 21:40
I can see why that would be in some MC's but in reality it all depends when the final despatch is timed at.
Some MC's late shifts are still 22:00 finish as that is when the final despatch is.
In smaller MCs it might also depend on when night shifts have to start setting up. Smaller MCs might have to use the same space for inward and outward whereas larger MCs might well have the room for full setups of both inward and outward to be in place all the time
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Post by stephen500 »

Navalron wrote:
Pancake123 wrote:Hello,
Does anybody know if there is any afternoon shift allowance ? I m going to work 2-22, how much weekly should I get extra ?
Thank you :)

Yes it's about £12 a week or something. Haven't looked it up for ages. Anytime worked after 20:00hrs brings extra money and starting before 5/5:30am.
Afternoon shift allow is a lot more than £12 per week, it's at least £50
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Post by Navalron »

stephen500 wrote:
Navalron wrote:
Pancake123 wrote:Hello,
Does anybody know if there is any afternoon shift allowance ? I m going to work 2-22, how much weekly should I get extra ?
Thank you :)

Yes it's about £12 a week or something. Haven't looked it up for ages. Anytime worked after 20:00hrs brings extra money and starting before 5/5:30am.
Afternoon shift allow is a lot more than £12 per week, it's at least £50

20:00hrs is 8pm not 10pm. And if you read my comment I did say that I hadn't looked up the rates for ages.
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Post by k979aaa »

Tamsk wrote:Allowance times taken from various places in the Way Forward agreement:

Dawn shift (starts between 0201-0400)
Early shift (starts between 0401-0500)
Early shift (starts between 0501-0530)
Evening shift (finishes between 2000-2139)
Late shift (finishes between 2140-0159)
Night shift (three hours worked across 2300-0500)

[Two different flavours of early shift, the latter roughly getting half the allowance of the former. I haven't quoted the actual allowances, since they'll have changed, and depend on grade.]
Evening shift is £22.45 so late's is about £40 nights £65
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Post by tractorboy2 »

k979aaa wrote:
Tamsk wrote:Allowance times taken from various places in the Way Forward agreement:

Dawn shift (starts between 0201-0400)
Early shift (starts between 0401-0500)
Early shift (starts between 0501-0530)
Evening shift (finishes between 2000-2139)
Late shift (finishes between 2140-0159)
Night shift (three hours worked across 2300-0500)

[Two different flavours of early shift, the latter roughly getting half the allowance of the former. I haven't quoted the actual allowances, since they'll have changed, and depend on grade.]
Evening shift is £22.45 so late's is about £40 nights £65
Nights is around £90