32% pay cut!!
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Booyaa
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Employ himself to lecture.
I have never been self employed at what I trained to be.
So just open a random business?
Yep.
Doing what?
The choice is yours.
jamma
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I kow it aint the same as taking a pay cut but when i worked at a college part time hourly paid with the manager who taught me they let me work as many hours as i wanted and was really chilled out as long as the job got done but then they put me under a another manager who was really strict with how many hours i could work so i put my notice in. I went back to see how everyone was and learned that my first manager had been made redundant and other colleagues hours had been cut they said i was lucky to get out when i did.
Booyaa
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[QUOTE 4468311, member: 259"]Good luck selling that to a uni.[/QUOTE]
Thanks. I have been pretty successful so far.
Thanks. I have been pretty successful so far.
Doing what?
Dismissal and re-engagement needs consultation.
Whether people are successful or not in an ET claim one of the factors they take into account was % of people accepting the changes.
[QUOTE 4468115, member: 9609"]You could make more money in the late 90s, trampers could earn 30k, you wouldn't get anywhere near that now, the pay is just a joke, from what I have been told too many migrants willing to work for the minimum or less (13 hr day and get paid the minimum for the 8hr driving) . I doubt I will ever bother again, I don't mind working for little but some of these companies are taking the pish. You quote £8.50 an hour but is it as much as that, do you get paid for your compulsory breaks ? 8 hr day minus your 45 may mean 7.25*8.50 = £61.62 / 8 hours = £7.70 an hour.
So getting back to the OP, I would guess there will be many in the haulage industry who have suffered comparable deterioration in pay but done over a bigger time scale.[/QUOTE]
Yes, the race to the bottom is in full swing. Haulage companies are cutting each other's throats and slashing costs wherever they can. Drivers are an obvious target for cuts, and as you say, if you won't work for the money on offer then someone else certainly will. Driver shortage my backside. Perhaps a shortage of people being stupid enough to want to do the job for pennies.
So much for this CPC nonsense which was touted as an opportunity to weed out the dross, leaving a bunch of dedicated, highly trained, well paid pool of drivers!
Re your query about paid breaks; it varies from company to company. Once unheard of, it is now quite common to get as much as one hour deducted from pay for a break. If they can get away with it, they will do it.
I refused to go back to a certain company (through agency) which deducts 45 minutes per shift, because they tried pressuring me into being somewhat flexible with the interpretation of the law regarding breaks. I don't play that game.
So getting back to the OP, I would guess there will be many in the haulage industry who have suffered comparable deterioration in pay but done over a bigger time scale.[/QUOTE]
Yes, the race to the bottom is in full swing. Haulage companies are cutting each other's throats and slashing costs wherever they can. Drivers are an obvious target for cuts, and as you say, if you won't work for the money on offer then someone else certainly will. Driver shortage my backside. Perhaps a shortage of people being stupid enough to want to do the job for pennies.
So much for this CPC nonsense which was touted as an opportunity to weed out the dross, leaving a bunch of dedicated, highly trained, well paid pool of drivers!
Re your query about paid breaks; it varies from company to company. Once unheard of, it is now quite common to get as much as one hour deducted from pay for a break. If they can get away with it, they will do it.
I refused to go back to a certain company (through agency) which deducts 45 minutes per shift, because they tried pressuring me into being somewhat flexible with the interpretation of the law regarding breaks. I don't play that game.
Meh, sorry to hear gavroche. I think they must be struggling for language lecturers already anyway? I'm sure they used to offer several languages in the evenings on the Rhos site, but it all seems to be over Abergele end now which is too far away for me (Rhos is bad enough), and Welsh evening classes seem non existent at Bangor & Rhos. Coleg Menai used to do quite a few Welsh courses. Worst thing they could have done is merge the three colleges. I've gone the Open University route instead.
