Cut our drivers hours down to 48 …and they’d all leave.
When I go home after 9.6 hours,they look at me like I’m an alien.
Juddian:
stu675:
Winseer:
working 60-84 hours per week to get that, and it includes all allowances.Isn’t the WTD adhered to everywhere at 48 hrs per week?
POA is the scam that allows up to 80 hour weeks.
Proper responsible employers that do not want exhausted zombie drivers do not recognise POA., hence why some get paid for 40 hours what it takes those working for irresponsible employers over 60 hours.
Depends how the hours are calculated as well. One of mine turned ina time sheet with 123 hours on it. All legal. Forget the details now but there was a bank holiday and a Sunday so that was double time and it was on a ferry so 48 hours for those 2 days. Another 12 somewhere for a midweek ferry. Paid all breaks, double manned and POA paid, his actual working hours as in driving or loading were under 48. Unusual for everything to fall right, but it did that week for him. I worked the wages out and had to go and lie down in a darkened room.
albion:
Juddian:
stu675:
Winseer:
working 60-84 hours per week to get that, and it includes all allowances.Isn’t the WTD adhered to everywhere at 48 hrs per week?
POA is the scam that allows up to 80 hour weeks.
Proper responsible employers that do not want exhausted zombie drivers do not recognise POA., hence why some get paid for 40 hours what it takes those working for irresponsible employers over 60 hours.Depends how the hours are calculated as well. One of mine turned ina time sheet with 123 hours on it. All legal. Forget the details now but there was a bank holiday and a Sunday so that was double time and it was on a ferry so 48 hours for those 2 days. Another 12 somewhere for a midweek ferry. Paid all breaks, double manned and POA paid, his actual working hours as in driving or loading were under 48. Unusual for everything to fall right, but it did that week for him. I worked the wages out and had to go and lie down in a darkened room.
the nodding donkey:
Juddian:
stu675:
Winseer:
working 60-84 hours per week to get that, and it includes all allowances.Isn’t the WTD adhered to everywhere at 48 hrs per week?
POA is the scam that allows up to 80 hour weeks.
Proper responsible employers that do not want exhausted zombie drivers do not recognise POA., hence why some get paid for 40 hours what it takes those working for irresponsible employers over 60 hours.The big problem is the ‘one size fits all’ that they have created. There is a big difference between loading in Plymouth, driving leisurely to Dundee, tipping, driving leisurely down to Newcastle, loading, and leisurely back to Plymouth, doing 15 hour days, having 9 hours off to sleep, or doing 15 local deliveries with a tail lift, a few collections on the way back, and then having to commute home ( and back in in the morning) in those 9 hours.
65-70 tramping mon-fri is easy. The same hours on local multdrop is madness.
I remember doing a shift on the agency with a parcel firm, I was double manning. I said what happens to the drops you dont do? He said "They put them on you for the day after plus all tomorrows drops
Average 42 hours (4 days 48 hours, 3 days 36).
Weekly take home pay ranges from £451 to £678.
Class 2, Rochdale.