First ever political post

[GB72]

If they work 24 Saturdays and 24 Sundays are year they deserve all the pay they get, I certainly wouldn't do it for thqt money

Two weekends on two off….not unusual….

With 307 hours annual leave, you can take a few of them off.

And here’s the trick.

Still get your unsocial money.

[frankiekopel]

If everyone took their holidays on a Saturday and Sunday, I would imagine they would be pretty short staffed at the weekends

[GB72]

If everyone took their holidays on a Saturday and Sunday, I would imagine they would be pretty short staffed at the weekends

Only so many staff can get off at one time.

But free to take as many weekends off as you want

307 hours…..then the sickness

[islaydarkblue]

Free from the spectre of redundancy and every mistake error or bad practice pretty much covered up

No bad work.

Just like the MSPs and civil servants working at Holyrood.

[islaydarkblue]

You obviously know nothing about what has happened in the banking industry in the last 25 years or so and especially since the banking crash. Huge numbers have left banking with nothing but the basic minimum redundancy. The banks have been ruthless in cutting staff and branches. It has no doubt not affected the big bosses but there has been carnage in the lower ranks.

I agree with everything you say.
Gordon Brown when he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2001 stopped excellent profit sharing schemes operated by the banks and brought in a bonus scheme which was target driven.
People should remember that profit sharing is only paid if a bank makes a profit whilst bonuses were paid even if the bank made a loss providing the member of staff reached their target.

[islaydarkblue]

Two weekends on two off….not unusual….

With 307 hours annual leave, you can take a few of them off.

And here’s the trick.

Still get your unsocial money.

Here is another cracker for you.
The staff on the Calmac ferries work 2 weeks on 2 weeks off. Coupled with their Annual holidays they work 23 weeks per annum.
The crew on the large car ferries work 7 days a week shift system. They have a cabin on board their ship with free full board and lodgings.
That is why the Scottish Government had to hand over £128 million to Calmac Ferries Limited to balance the books in their annual accounts for the year ending 31st March 2019.
If a Calmac ferry is late finishing one evening the following day the first return sailing of day can be cancelled due to the crew’s hours of work.
This never used to happen but it appears to have become prevalent in the last three years.

[jdfc]

Depends on what the correct salary is, some say 34k, the last poster just under 30k.If it's the latter that ain't great with shift and weekend work for a qualified nurse imo. It's costing my mate a fortune putting his daughter to uni to become a nurse and 4 year degree also so not as great as u think.

How is it costing him a fortune, Uni is free in this country, and if wages are as low as we are led to believe then they won’t have to pay back much on their student loans,

Nurses are one of the few students who don’t have to pay back their £800 a month bursary, add on a wee part time job and probably better of than most

[jdfc]

If everyone took their holidays on a Saturday and Sunday, I would imagine they would be pretty short staffed at the weekends

A lot of departments in the hospital close on a Friday for the weekend

[eric_sinclair]

How is it costing him a fortune, Uni is free in this country, and if wages are as low as we are led to believe then they won’t have to pay back much on their student loans,

Nurses are one of the few students who don’t have to pay back their £800 a month bursary, add on a wee part time job and probably better of than most

Accommodation in Edinburgh is the cost. No everyone can get an offer at dundee uni.

[eric_sinclair]

Can’t be doing many unsocial hours in their roster for those figures.

Doing two Saturdays and and two Sundays a month will earn them

£2312 for the Sunday’s and £1156 for the Saturday over the course of a year

Throw in the midweek night shifts (all nurses nhs staff have different)

But another £2817 for your midweek nights

So easily over £6,000

Those weekend hours would put thousands on most jobs I wud imagine.