I'm confused. The Finfacts article refers to an Irish Examiner article, presumably [broken link removed]. The Finfacts article claims;Obviously some people are being well paid for their overtime.
http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10007451.shtml
In public agencies, the Health Service Executive paid €585.6m in overtime with the top recipient getting €150,000 on top of a regular salary and generous pension - 5 times the average industrial wage
Indeed, I don’t want to be accused of playing the martyr again but I have also put in 24 and 36 hour days. That is dangerous but in my opinion, based on doing it ever week for nearly 20 years, I don’t think that working 7.30 to 6.30 in a job that is not physically demanding is a particularly long day or in any way dangerous. Working 20 hours a day on the other hand would be dangerous. I thought that was obvious.Why a 10hr day. Why not 15 or 20? I was talking in general about working beyond normal hours as routine. In some jobs, projects I've worked on working through the night is pretty common to meet deadlines.
So no one works longer hours than those advertised on the FÁS site? I agree that NCHD’s working through the night o a regular basis is dangerous but that’s not the same as a bit of over time. Sorry, I have no time for anyone who ****es and moans about having to do a bit of overtime. I do think that they should get paid for it though.Well you see the working hours advertised for jobs on the FAS site. They can't all be fiction. Doctors are a very specific case. I don't think its right myself. The potential for error is too great, and they may kill someone. On the flip side for the doctor they'll reap the rewards later in their career.
So you should have prefaced your comment with “In my experience” then? Why didn’t you just say that if overtime was becoming the rule rather than the exception you expected to be paid for it?Many, many years of hard learnt experience.
An opinion you are perfectly entitled to. In my experience most small businesses that I know would not survive if the key people shared your view.Most of the time "in my experience" theres not a good reason to ignore it. [/SIZE]
YESSorry, I have no time for anyone who ****es and moans about having to do a bit of overtime. I do think that they should get paid for it though.
By the way, if a civil servant worked their ass off and got loads of overtime then fair play to them. Do you think that they should be doing it for nothing?
Why? because you are only worth on what you can negotiate , and what the market is prepared to pay. That applies to both private and public sector.
No wonder the public sector are always short of money, when people won't do a tap over & above their 33 hr week, without getting paid for it.
If everyone in the private sector had that attitude, the country would close down.
I would suggest that the Public Sector attracts a certain calibre of individual.Not everyone in the public sector has this attitude... and not everyone in the private sector is a workaholic.
I would suggest that the Public Sector attracts a certain calibre of individual.
I would suggest that the Public Sector attracts a certain calibre of individual.
Go on what!?Can you take a sabatical or go on secumbment?
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