How Many Offices Are Going Through This.

[andy2007]

Personally, I think we'd be better concentrating on the possibility of using Employment Law, and signed agreements. Rather than anything they've said in the past. I've yet to see any evidence that they can be trusted to keep their word, so any assurances they give/have given are frankly irrelevant to me. What we need is binding agreements, signed by both parties.

Perhaps this will be useful (taken from the MTSF agreement):
6. Consideration will also be given to a number of activities that will facilitate
the management of surplus. These wil include voluntary conversion from
full to part time working, adjustments to levels of overtime and scheduled
attendance, reversion of temporary promotees, preferencing and bumping,
voluntary redundancy and voluntary regrading

There's no mention there, of compulsary reduction in hours. Only VOLUNTARY reductions. Hopefully there will be other things we can use. But it's the best I can come up with.

[Phantom]

We have lapsed and done holiday cover also have now just found out that all part time staff are being put down to the contracted hours they are employed on,thing is we do have a large rural section and as the managers have said they can not revise or test the dutys as it would cost to much so time and time again they have taken hours and dutys from the town section,this is the most gaulling bit the towns are going over time and failing because walks are so big but rural and firm deliverys are finishing up to 1/1.5 hrs early,they go home while we struggle,were the ones that get it in the neck,its the divide and conker, we are at a loss have got in touch with all suggested its now wait and see,thanks to all that have put up ideas i really would not wish for this to be put on staffs shoulders its a big weight to carry.

The simple answer is you must all cut off! and do it now!

[bandit650]

The union are onto it,but!as always we have been told that we should not hold out for to much,the DIM has admitted they dont have a thing in place to do this,makes me wonder WHY should they have some body in a job like that pulling stunts like this,making statements like that,prehapes we should all start implamenting any ideas we fancy without even looking at the bigger picture,makes me so i will keep you up with what happens just so that if any of you find yourselves in the same position you can use us as a source of info,thanks to you all,its nice to have others around the country to learn from