Premium Rates
Is this some super super huge rate you get above the minimum hourly rate
If it is then its a con because it just balances out the low normal hourly rate you get
So if night out money is average 25 and another person gets 28 is that a premium rate
And then at the end of the week is it called a premium weeks wages
What is a “minimum hourly rate”? What is a “low normal hourly rate”? Are the two in some way connected?
A ‘‘Premium rate’’ is time and a half and/or double time paid over 40 hours on a good basic, usually only applies to decent firms or firms that have a genuine Union who maintain good t.s and c.s for their drivers.
A crap firm will pay you something like time and a quid or two quid, or something equally as paltry over something like 50 hours crap basic…but they still call it ‘‘premium rate’’
I work for the latter type of firm, and still fall into the trap of still calling it premium rate. 
Hope that helps.
I hope you work for the former type Nightline mate, we’ve got our hol still to fund. 
robroy:
I hope you work for the former type Nightline mate, we’ve got our hol still to fund.
If it helps I’m working every premium rate hour I can. My aim is to donate it to you two lovebirds and send you on an all expenses paid Sunshine variety coach trip to Margate.
You’re welcome.
the maoster:
robroy:
I hope you work for the former type Nightline mate, we’ve got our hol still to fund.If it helps I’m working every premium rate hour I can. My aim is to donate it to you two lovebirds and send you on an all expenses paid Sunshine variety coach trip to Margate.
You’re welcome.
A dream come true bud thanks.
On a coach trip with lager flavoured windows to Margate with Nightline. 
A bit like a poor man’s Vengabus to Ibizia. 
youtu.be/VORaol22Yl8
robroy:
the maoster:
robroy:
I hope you work for the former type Nightline mate, we’ve got our hol still to fund.If it helps I’m working every premium rate hour I can. My aim is to donate it to you two lovebirds and send you on an all expenses paid Sunshine variety coach trip to Margate.
You’re welcome.
A dream come true bud thanks.
On a coach trip with lager flavoured windows to Margate with Nightline.
A bit like a poor man’s Vengabus to Ibizia.
youtu.be/VORaol22Yl8
Cant wait a busman’s holiday
A busman’s holiday can’t wait
robroy:
A ‘‘Premium rate’’ is time and a half and/or double time paid over 40 hours on a good basic, usually only applies to decent firms or firms that have a genuine Union who maintain good t.s and c.s for their drivers.A crap firm will pay you something like time and a quid or two quid, or something equally as paltry over something like 50 hours crap basic…but they still call it ‘‘premium rate’’
I work for the latter type of firm, and still fall into the trap of still calling it premium rate.
Hope that helps.I hope you work for the former type Nightline mate, we’ve got our hol still to fund.
As Rob says.
It should be 40 hrs basic 1.5 after that 1.5 on sats and double on sundays you try getting that now all these clowns have carved the market up and driven the rates down good luck. The job is Fu–ed end of
Weekends should be for going
Out and enjoying yourself , not
Fretting whether it’s x2 , x3
How sad
dozy:
Weekends should be for going
Out and enjoying yourself , not
Fretting whether it’s x2 , x3
How sad
I enjoy every one of my Sat noon (mostly) to Tues pm weekends thanks doze, and without having to bother about some ungodly hour start time Wed am.
I also try and enjoy myself on nights out away when parked up also,… in fact I aint ‘‘sad’’ in the slightest tbh mate…what about you?
Competitive and Enhanced - words of doom 
O/p asks about Premium rates?
Here’s one that puts my ■■■■ poor pay job (along with many others on here no doubt) into perspective.
I volunteered to do a full week nxt week as the wife is working and I’d just be sitting around killing time and/or spending money (there is also the lovefest holiday with nighine to fund 
)
I mentioned it to the lad in the warehouse where I loaded this morning, he told me he was also working Bank Hol Monday as £500 was hard to refuse. 
He looked at me in disbelief when I told him about my ‘‘12 quid an hour’’ for Monday. …he waited untilI I laughed about it myself it before he took the ■■■■ …and quite rightly so.
Ok, here comes the ‘‘I wouldn’t do its/what are you thinking abouts’’ etc etc, but you can only play with the cards that are dealt on the table.
Would I advise anybody to be a driver today? …would I ■■■■. 
dozy:
Weekends should be for going
Out and enjoying yourself , not
Fretting whether it’s x2 , x3
How sad
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
weekends are also to be used for not running in to finish work because you were a prick by not getting home on a friday,then wondering who ate your steak and pumped your misses…how sad.
dieseldog999:
dozy:
Weekends should be for going
Out and enjoying yourself , not
Fretting whether it’s x2 , x3
How sad^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
weekends are also to be used for not running in to finish work because you were a prick by not getting home on a friday,then wondering who ate your steak and pumped your misses…how sad.
Don’t hold back DD and spare his feelings, just tell it how it is.
At least I was a bit more tactful say.
robthedog:
robroy:
A ‘‘Premium rate’’ is time and a half and/or double time paid over 40 hours on a good basic, usually only applies to decent firms or firms that have a genuine Union who maintain good t.s and c.s for their drivers.A crap firm will pay you something like time and a quid or two quid, or something equally as paltry over something like 50 hours crap basic…but they still call it ‘‘premium rate’’
I work for the latter type of firm, and still fall into the trap of still calling it premium rate.
Hope that helps.I hope you work for the former type Nightline mate, we’ve got our hol still to fund.
As Rob says.
It should be 40 hrs basic 1.5 after that 1.5 on sats and double on sundays you try getting that now all these clowns have carved the market up and driven the rates down good luck. The job is Fu–ed end of
Pardon my ignorance ROBB’s but when I left Britain some 16 years ago, the above mentioned contracts were statutory and had always since I left school.
Is the current situation something along the lines of zero hour contracts?
robroy:
O/p asks about Premium rates?
Here’s one that puts my ■■■■ poor pay job (along with many others on here no doubt) into perspective.I volunteered to do a full week nxt week as the wife is working and I’d just be sitting around killing time and/or spending money (there is also the lovefest holiday with nighine to fund
I mentioned it to the lad in the warehouse where I loaded this morning, he told me he was also working Bank Hol Monday as £500 was hard to refuse.
He looked at me in disbelief when I told him about my ‘‘12 quid an hour’’ for Monday.
Ok, here comes the ‘‘I wouldn’t do its/what are you thinking abouts’’ etc etc, but you can only play with the cards that are dealt on the table.
Would I advise anybody to be a driver today? …would I [zb].
At that rate we be lucky to get to margate
AndieHyde:
Pardon my ignorance ROBB’s but when I left Britain some 16 years ago, the above mentioned contracts were statutory and had always since I left school.Is the current situation something along the lines of zero hour contracts?
There is not, and never has been, a statutory requirement for overtime or weekend & Bank Holiday working to be paid at enhanced rates. Actually that’s not true - those who work in some areas of the public sector do have their overtime rates dictated by law, but that’s a result of their payscales being set down in legislation, not because of any general legal requirement for it to be so.
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Roymondo:
AndieHyde:
Pardon my ignorance ROBB’s but when I left Britain some 16 years ago, the above mentioned contracts were statutory and had always since I left school.Is the current situation something along the lines of zero hour contracts?
There is not, and never has been, a statutory requirement for overtime or weekend & Bank Holiday working to be paid at enhanced rates. Actually that’s not true - those who work in some areas of the public sector do have their overtime rates dictated by law, but that’s a result of their payscales being set down in legislation, not because of any general legal requirement for it to be so.
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Everything is local deals, what you are willing to do it for or willing not do it for
Unless you work for a good unionist company you still won’t get treble for bank holiday but it will be better than what most get
nightline:
robroy:
O/p asks about Premium rates?
Here’s one that puts my ■■■■ poor pay job (along with many others on here no doubt) into perspective.I volunteered to do a full week nxt week as the wife is working and I’d just be sitting around killing time and/or spending money (there is also the lovefest holiday with nighine to fund
I mentioned it to the lad in the warehouse where I loaded this morning, he told me he was also working Bank Hol Monday as £500 was hard to refuse.
He looked at me in disbelief when I told him about my ‘‘12 quid an hour’’ for Monday.
Ok, here comes the ‘‘I wouldn’t do its/what are you thinking abouts’’ etc etc, but you can only play with the cards that are dealt on the table.
Would I advise anybody to be a driver today? …would I [zb].At that rate we be lucky to get to margate
AndieHyde:
robthedog:
robroy:
A ‘‘Premium rate’’ is time and a half and/or double time paid over 40 hours on a good basic, usually only applies to decent firms or firms that have a genuine Union who maintain good t.s and c.s for their drivers.A crap firm will pay you something like time and a quid or two quid, or something equally as paltry over something like 50 hours crap basic…but they still call it ‘‘premium rate’’
I work for the latter type of firm, and still fall into the trap of still calling it premium rate.
Hope that helps.I hope you work for the former type Nightline mate, we’ve got our hol still to fund.
As Rob says.
It should be 40 hrs basic 1.5 after that 1.5 on sats and double on sundays you try getting that now all these clowns have carved the market up and driven the rates down good luck. The job is Fu–ed end ofPardon my ignorance ROBB’s but when I left Britain some 16 years ago, the above mentioned contracts were statutory and had always since I left school.
Is the current situation something along the lines of zero hour contracts?
Don’t know about statutory, but it was certainly common and typical.
Then came the demise of the Unions, (admittedlly partly their own fault) along with the state funded ‘Anti Union brainwash at school’ generation bending over and handing back on a plate everything that was fought for in terms of workers rights by our Grandfathers and Great Grandfathers.
So now we are left with a legacy of a cluster ■■■■ of zero hour contracts, derisory t.s and c.s, with a '‘If you don’t like it ■■■■ off’ policy practiced (successfully) by firms.