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longs and shorts

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dropbag_clone
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longs and shorts

Post by dropbag_clone »

For those offices that have ‘Long Days’ and ‘Short Days’ (the way it is implemented in our office means Mon Tue and Sat are ‘Short Days, and Wed, Thurs and Friday are ‘Long days’…will the longer Saturday (in the proposed agreement) cut across this?

Will it drop out of the ‘Short Day’ plan?

Will Longs and Shorts still exist?
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Post by fishtank »

I suppose it's one of those "Local Agreement" things.
Although i cannot imagine how it will be possible to retain a "short" saturday when the workplan is the same as Mon-Fri and 25% of your staff are off. :hmmmm
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Post by Big Daz »

Longs and shorts is a national agreement, unless duty content dicates otherwise then longs and shorts it is.

You will also need to look at how much work your D.O has on a Saturday including M3, I suspect my D.O will be less busy than WED THUR FRI but more busy than MON TUE.
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Post by numan »

I reckon they will probably alter your longs and shorts whenever they see fit, in order to tie in with their specified day D2D plans.
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Post by Big Daz »

numan wrote:I reckon they will probably alter your longs and shorts whenever they see fit, in order to tie in with their specified day D2D plans.

I hope they get it right :whistle
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Post by bunkerland »

numan wrote:I reckon they will probably alter your longs and shorts whenever they see fit, in order to tie in with their specified day D2D plans.


Under this new agreement "longs and shorts" will be replaced by"longs and longs"!
laudrup11
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Re: longs and shorts

Post by laudrup11 »

Glad someone asked this, was wondering about it.
If you can still have a shorter Tuesday, why cant you still have a shorter Saturday? As long as you guarantee a clear office............
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Re: longs and shorts

Post by numan »

laudrup11 wrote:Glad someone asked this, was wondering about it.
If you can still have a shorter Tuesday, why cant you still have a shorter Saturday? As long as you guarantee a clear office............


RM will not want a shorter Saturday because of all the Saturday DSA. If you're guaranteeing a clear office, I assume you mean not booking any o/t? If that's the case then I don't see what you will gain by having a shorter Saturday on paper?
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Re: longs and shorts

Post by judith »

numan wrote:
laudrup11 wrote:Glad someone asked this, was wondering about it.
If you can still have a shorter Tuesday, why cant you still have a shorter Saturday? As long as you guarantee a clear office............


RM will not want a shorter Saturday because of all the Saturday DSA. If you're guaranteeing a clear office, I assume you mean not booking any o/t? If that's the case then I don't see what you will gain by having a shorter Saturday on paper?
we ve been told long and shorts will disappear thats why this agreements no good its made up as we go along
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Post by woofwoof »

if you are a leave reserve and do longs and shorts check your hours because if you only ever get a mon,tue or satday off you will be working more then a 40 hour week so royal mail will owe you a bit of cash if you have been on longs and shorts for a year or so
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Post by dvbuk55 »

Actually it's a point of long and short days - what happened to the banking hours and flexibility - has anyone noticed anything specific about this in the agreement?
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Post by jaja »

dvbuk55 wrote:Actually it's a point of long and short days - what happened to the banking hours and flexibility - has anyone noticed anything specific about this in the agreement?

Surley longs and shorts will go out of the window ?

replaced with Longs every day!
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Post by fishtank »

dvbuk55 wrote:Actually it's a point of long and short days - what happened to the banking hours and flexibility - has anyone noticed anything specific about this in the agreement?

Only the rather frightening........

This agreement reaffirms the 2007 Pay and Modernisation Agreement, concludes all outstanding Phase 4 negotiations, and builds upon the November 2009 Interim Agreement Key Principles – thus enabling the successful transformation of Royal Mail into a modern, dynamic and world class company. :nervous :nervous
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Re: longs and shorts

Post by dvbuk55 »

fishtank wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:Actually it's a point of long and short days - what happened to the banking hours and flexibility - has anyone noticed anything specific about this in the agreement?

Only the rather frightening........

This agreement reaffirms the 2007 Pay and Modernisation Agreement, concludes all outstanding Phase 4 negotiations, and builds upon the November 2009 Interim Agreement Key Principles – thus enabling the successful transformation of Royal Mail into a modern, dynamic and world class company. :nervous :nervous

:shock: Well that's pretty specific then :shock: and it looks like London are still building on the Interim Agreement with ACAS - still it's only been 4 months, so if it takes four months for 1 area how long to do the whole country - answers on a post card to Roger Poole.
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Post by Pinky 1 »

Surely our long and shorts will have to be dropped ? How are we going to complete a 100% call rate for a day specific D2D, on a short day ?
We'd end up booking overtime or breaking off :d'oh!
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