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Rjan:
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Rjan:
Ah so now we get to the nub: your puny operation can’t afford to support full coverage by quality drivers.
Yet you think these quality drivers should be standing around all the same, ready and waiting for when you call and throw them a bone.
Eh? You telling me that I should employ someone to sit in the canteen just for holiday cover?
Sitting around is what’s happening anyway, with guys sat idle next to their phones waiting for you to throw a bone. The only difference is that you’re not paying them to be on-call (either directly or via a higher hourly rate), and then moaning when you get surly workers who think they’re getting a raw deal.
Realistically, the answer is either to have cover drivers employed full-time by some sort of employers’ association, so that they can be shared amongst those requiring holiday cover whilst providing a full-time livelihood to the worker, or else the answer is for there to be fewer employers with more drivers each (who can then cover holidays with normal workforce overtime policies).
Have you reached puberty yet? You’re talking like a 10 year old.
Your posts read like you were contemporary with Charles Dickens, so I suppose by that standard youth still rules me.
The limpers don’t have a raw deal, they get paid a higher rate than full timers.
I can’t say I’d noticed the generally advertised agency hourly rates being much more than the generally advertised permanent hourly rates - in fact often they’re less, and that’s before you talk about the loss of security and benefits.
Perhaps in some outfits the full-time guys are still on such poor pay (i.e. within a pound of NMW) that the agency guys are getting a better hourly rate than the full-timers in that particular firm, but those low rates often don’t reflect the average market rate to begin with.
The rest of your rant will make the agency industry quake.
“I have an idea for the transport industry, we will stop recruitment companies in their traks. We will employ drivers to fill in for holidays and peak times, these people will be shared around various companies where and when required.”
Not quite come up with a name for this type of work but I’m sure someone will think of one…
The difference in this model is that the driver is actually employed, and the association underwrite his wages whether he is used by them or sits on the bench.
That’s a model reminiscent of the past though, fragile against unregulated competition. The stronger model is fewer employers with more employees, which I’m sure will have people quaking in their boots all the same.
If a limper is a decent driver, he will be in full time employment. I never struggled to fill my weeks before my leg healed.
Then you’re getting what you expect even by your own logic, and you also prove my point that agency work is inherently underpaid relative to full-time work (because otherwise it would attract an abundance of willing drivers and you wouldn’t have to accept inferior quality).
