For those posting and counter posting about time off at Christmas can they please state their total annual leave? It would also be good if they could state their standard working week and if they can work up extra days off by working overtime.
For those posting and counter posting about time off at Christmas can they please state their total annual leave? It would also be good if they could state their standard working week and if they can work up extra days off by working overtime.
I get 20 days, my minimum hours are 39 and everyone here gets paid overtime. I never work less than 48 hours a week and have taken 10 sick days in the last 18 years, 6 of them for hospitalisation.
Many friends in the private sector work long hours with no time off in lieu, no paid overtime and no paid sick days.
I presume your concern for the public purse extends to rejecting these orders and sending a note to the CEO of the organisation pointing out the unnecessary spending?We see this with our public sector customers every single year.
In fact it's happening as I type - people are ordering 100s, 1000s of € worth of stuff that they have admitted they don't need.
I presume your concern for the public purse extends to rejecting these orders and sending a note to the CEO of the organisation pointing out the unnecessary spending?
Hmm. Did I post or did I counter post?
What use would be served by giving information like that? What credence might be placed on it? Why do you want to know?
Questions, questions...
Presumably to show that while someone may have a particular 'perk', e.g. additional leave, they may forego something else such as paid Health insurance, employer pension contributions, bonuses, overtime/time in lieu?
A small self-selected sample tells us nothing useful about differences between private sector and public sector conditions of employment.
So it's a pointless exercise.
We should rename this thread the Ebenezzer Scrooge thread - "who gets the least holidays, works the longest hours and doesnt get any time off at Christmas?"
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
ALL: They won't!
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh
Drain clearance ( eeugh)
The point is that someone working up to Christmas Eve in the public sector may get more than 20 days holidays a year and may only have to work a laughably short week (such as 35 hours).Hmm. Did I post or did I counter post?
What use would be served by giving information like that? What credence might be placed on it? Why do you want to know?
Questions, questions...
The point is that someone working up to Christmas Eve in the public sector may get more than 20 days holidays a year and may only have to work a laughably short week (such as 35 hours).
If they are working 4 hours less than the bare minimum in most of the private sector and practically al of the SME sector that adds up to a half day a week or 24 extra days off a year.
The whole picture is required before comparisons can be made.
In terms of the working week in the public sector, the hours quoted generally don't include what may be a set lunchtime. For example, my working hours per week (public sector - HSE) are 33.75 hrs (6hr 45 min x 5), however my working day is 9am - 5pm Mon-Fri with a set 1hr 15 mins for lunch each day.
Does the private sector 39 hour week include a set lunch break (I appreciate that it might not always be taken, but is there one factored into the 39 hours?).
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