holiday paid based on working week, i.e. take 5 days hol. get paid 30 hrs
no bank holiday extra pay, bank holiday = regular working day
overtime paid at 1.25 after 42 hours weekly
no sick pay other than SSP
no redundancy pay
no pension (you can opt in and pay for it yourself)
no death in service benefit
unpaid breaks, deducted automatically whether you take 15 mins or 30 total for the shift don’t matter
comes out to about £24-28k/ year depending on weekly hours
…from a company that used to pay £32k for 40 hour weeks on class 2 with 30+ days of annual paid leave + all the above and OT 150% after 40h. 200% on bank holiday etc.
Not a transport/logistics company either. New contracts are even worse from what I hear at another place I used to work at on agency, down to about 25k for class 1 down from 30
Well if that’s gonna be the new norm then I’d imagine there will be some companies going out of business or standards will go through the floor.
Hopefully other companies won’t follow suite or things will eventually boil over and something will Happen!
Amazes me how the leaders of the world go on about the wage gap, poverty etc yet companies pull that crap so the guys at the top still get richer while the people at the bottom who keep the wheels turning get poorer and poorer
If every job paid £150,000 a year then there would be no poverty probably
holiday paid based on working week, i.e. take 5 days hol. get paid 30 hrs
no bank holiday extra pay, bank holiday = regular working day
overtime paid at 1.25 after 42 hours weekly
no sick pay other than SSP
no redundancy pay
no pension (you can opt in and pay for it yourself)
no death in service benefit
unpaid breaks, deducted automatically whether you take 15 mins or 30 total for the shift don’t matter
comes out to about £24-28k/ year depending on weekly hours
…from a company that used to pay £32k for 40 hour weeks on class 2 with 30+ days of annual paid leave + all the above and OT 150% after 40h. 200% on bank holiday etc.
Not a transport/logistics company either. New contracts are even worse from what I hear at another place I used to work at on agency, down to about 25k for class 1 down from 30
holiday paid based on working week, i.e. take 5 days hol. get paid 30 hrs
no bank holiday extra pay, bank holiday = regular working day
overtime paid at 1.25 after 42 hours weekly
no sick pay other than SSP
no redundancy pay
no pension (you can opt in and pay for it yourself)
no death in service benefit
unpaid breaks, deducted automatically whether you take 15 mins or 30 total for the shift don’t matter
comes out to about £24-28k/ year depending on weekly hours
…from a company that used to pay £32k for 40 hour weeks on class 2 with 30+ days of annual paid leave + all the above and OT 150% after 40h. 200% on bank holiday etc.
Not a transport/logistics company either. New contracts are even worse from what I hear at another place I used to work at on agency, down to about 25k for class 1 down from 30
Couple of suspicious things there:
Redundancy pay is a legal requirement (once qualified for) isnt it? An employer cant opt out.
holiday paid based on working week, i.e. take 5 days hol. get paid 30 hrs
no bank holiday extra pay, bank holiday = regular working day
overtime paid at 1.25 after 42 hours weekly
no sick pay other than SSP
no redundancy pay
no pension (you can opt in and pay for it yourself)
no death in service benefit
unpaid breaks, deducted automatically whether you take 15 mins or 30 total for the shift don’t matter
comes out to about £24-28k/ year depending on weekly hours
…from a company that used to pay £32k for 40 hour weeks on class 2 with 30+ days of annual paid leave + all the above and OT 150% after 40h. 200% on bank holiday etc.
Not a transport/logistics company either. New contracts are even worse from what I hear at another place I used to work at on agency, down to about 25k for class 1 down from 30
Couple of suspicious things there:
Redundancy pay is a legal requirement (once qualified for) isnt it? An employer cant opt out.
And I thought automatic enrollment in a pension scheme was a legal requirement, with the option of opting out not in. I don’t think it’s compulsory for the company to contribute anything but I’m no expert!
TBH I’m actually keeping an eye out to take a pay cut in order to work less hours, currently on a 48 hour contract (between 40-55 a week in reality, we never did more than 50 before Covid and that was rare).
manicpb:
And I thought automatic enrollment in a pension scheme was a legal requirement, with the option of opting out not in. I don’t think it’s compulsory for the company to contribute anything but I’m no expert!
Yes it is a legal requirement and yes the company has to contribute 3% of what you earn above a lower earnings level which without checking is somewhere around £150 so it’s 3% above that level.
Hopefully most companies would do more than the bare minimum regarding pensions, but auto-enrolment means that essentially all employers are obliged enroll the worker in a pension scheme and also pay a certain percentage. This has been rolled out over a while with the percentage increasing.
I believe companies can defer for a set time, for example when a worker just starts and doesn’t specifically ask to be put on the scheme straight away. Workers can also opt-out, but obviously they would lose out on the employer contributions.
