Kent parking

Winseer:
It’s illegal for anyone to be employed below minimum wage in this country - and yet we put up with our roads crawling with continental drivers earning far less than that. WE should be doing that work, and if that drives up wages due to actual driver shortage - then so be it.

Enough of this pandering to the EU.

Even our own hauliers moving to get us to work more and more hours “off book” to stay legal - needs to stop.

48 hour WTD week? 10 hour WTD Night shift? - What good is THAT if Breaks and POA don’t count towards it?

You can still work 15+15+15+13+13+13 week one with 15+15+15+13+13 on week two for a 155 hour fornight that gets paid as a 96 hour fortnight - all nice and “legal” thanks to the use of Breaks and POA bringing down those totals to legal levels. It bloody well shouldn’t be legal at all pf course! - it’s indentured servitude and now bordering on slavery because rising inflation is moving the cost of living out of reach of all workers on stagnant pay and conditions.

Who actually gets paid “Overtime” for hours worked beyond 48 each week? That’s NOT 48 hours “Paid, on-shift” - but 48 hours AT WORK.
Who gets paid overtime at time and a half among those who DO get paid it?
Who actually has their statutary leave count towards that “qualifying week” towards overtime?

I suggest what used to be the higher payers among transport firms - have crushed their overtime using new “salaried” contracts, and impossible T&Cs to qualify for automatic overtime payments of any decent level.
The lower payers of course - might continue to offer “overtime at single time” to encourage drivers to work 12-15 hours in a shift without getting shirty about it.

It’s about time truckers were paid something approaching what Train drivers get - and for the lot less hours they do as well! :imp:

I’ve often banged on here about “Unpaid POA”. Every time you take a break or book some POA and are salaried - you are extending your working shift - for no extra pay.
Firms avoid “paying” for POA/Break hours - because they fear drivers hanging it out to get automatic overtime on each and every shift.
Maybe it’s time for a driver’s working week to be 3x15 hour shifts then? That would work great for Trampers I’m sure! Home for four days every week! A 45 hour week is quite adequate for all workers, and still represents more hours than what most people have to work in their line of work. If you are on a 15 hour shift, there can be NO hanging it out for extra overtime payments - because the 15 hours represents a limit not a target. Make a driver’s working week for a “Salary” 5x12 hours one week, and 4x9 hours the next week - and you end up with over-runs galore with drivers attempting to cut their own throats by NOT claiming overtime - to stay legal. All of what would be “overtime” hours - now have to be kept off-book. “Forcing the firm to stand you down because of hours” ends up as a disciplinary offence.

FFS Let’s just get on with Brexit already. :imp:

Funny or not but company nothing do illegal.Because in Uk company can absolutely legally pay just national minimum wages for any hours.Plus this nstional minimum wages have reference period whick much longer for two week.