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HR question

My current and previous company close for 3 days at Xmas.
That is great, because the whole company closes so nobody emails you, nobody expects you to check in and keep projects ticking over... the whole company shuts.

Whereas 15 years ago there would always be projects ticking over and a skeleton staff of people pretending to work between Xmas and New Year (whilst doing VERY little) and then taking 3 days during 'proper' work time e.g. May.
 
My mate works as a bus driver for Brighton and Hove buses. He gets 5 weeks holiday a year, he is allowed to take a week from january to april 2 weeks may to September and then a week from september to December, the extra week they can take when they choose or in individual days. If they take under 5 sick days a year they also get an extra 2 days holiday for the next year.
 
scaramanga said:
And the employer finds a good reason for the troublemaker to find alternative employment
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Ha, so having a union enforcing legal industrial law is in your view 'trouble making.' This is why every worker should be a union member. Strength through unity protects worker's legal rights. Nothing else will. Note how since union membership has declined, bosses have further undermined pay and conditions. Who would have thunk it?
 
Gilzeantoscore said:
Ha, so having a union enforcing legal industrial law is in your view 'trouble making.' This is why every worker should be a union member. Strength through unity protects worker's legal rights. Nothing else will. Note how since union membership has declined, bosses have further undermined pay and conditions. Who would have thunk it?
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And employment has increased to record levels.
 
Gilzeantoscore said:
Casualized, insecure and lowly paid employment certainly has.
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Absolutely. If you increase the cost of employing people, you decrease the demand for employment, slow the economy, reduce the ability of the public to spend, etc.

Make it cheaper to employ people and we all gain.
 
Gilzeantoscore said:
Love how Tories always bang on about the law...until it comes to worker's rights, then it's crickets.
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The law should be followed.

The law is mostly what can be proven in court and isn't static. As shown with employment law, it can be (and was) changed to suit the country's needs.
 
scaramanga said:
Absolutely. If you increase the cost of employing people, you decrease the demand for employment, slow the economy, reduce the ability of the public to spend, etc.

Make it cheaper to employ people and we all gain.
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Really... How come Norway, Sweden, Denmark have always had the lowest unemployment rate in Europe, with the exact opposite approach?
Ever since we got a conservative government, doing as you describe, unemployment has gone up!
 
Kandi1977 said:
Really... How come Norway, Sweden, Denmark have always had the lowest unemployment rate in Europe, with the exact opposite approach?
Ever since we got a conservative government, doing as you describe, unemployment has gone up!
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Mainly because they're all resource rich countries with a combined population the size of Westminster.
 
in the US, employees of course have 0 mandated vacation days/sick leave. Thats "freedom" for you. oh and "the best country in the world" when u ask anyone.
 
Mr_B said:
in the US, employees of course have 0 mandated vacation days/sick leave. Thats "freedom" for you. oh and "the best country in the world" when u ask anyone.
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I assume valued/valuable employees are able to negotiate more than 0 mandated vacation days and that the more in demand jobs are offering more?
 
scaramanga said:
I assume valued/valuable employees are able to negotiate more than 0 mandated vacation days and that the more in demand jobs are offering more?
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well, of course any one who isn't cleaning toilets usually gets at least 10 days vacation and employers do offer UK equivalent vacation time to tenured professionals (like myself for example) but in most jobs here, you have to accrue vacation time and you can't take a single day until you've worked a minimum of 6 months/a year.
If your company doesn't give you the correctly allotted 15 minute break time however, you can sue them, such a weird country, *sigh*
 
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