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[InversneckieDob]

But 35 hours a week is a 40 hour week if you count an hour for a break each day.
I'm 37 hours a week but that doesn't count lunch breaks, most folk's conditioned hours don't count lunch breaks now.
If someone is driving a train with a mob of passengers, I'd like them to be properly fed and rested for the full length of the time they're at their job.
Also, I'm sure their working day doesn't consist solely of driving a choo-choo from A to B.
I'd guess there's pre and post journey prep/checks/admin that will be important to the safe conduct of train journeys.

[donsdaft]

But 35 hours a week is a 40 hour week if you count an hour for a break each day.
I'm 37 hours a week but that doesn't count lunch breaks, most folk's conditioned hours don't count lunch breaks now.
If someone is driving a train with a mob of passengers, I'd like them to be properly fed and rested for the full length of the time they're at their job.
Also, I'm sure their working day doesn't consist solely of driving a choo-choo from A to B.
I'd guess there's pre and post journey prep/checks/admin that will be important to the safe conduct of train journeys.

Of course hours worked doesn't include lunch breaks, why would it?

You could say " I work a seven day week" if you included weekends.

When I first left school, I worked a 40 hour week.
Monday - Friday
08.30 -12.30....13.30 - 17.30 (with 2 x 10 minute breaks)

That lasted almost 2 years, I've worked much longer hours than that ever since.

[mondo_notion]

But 35 hours a week is a 40 hour week if you count an hour for a break each day.
I'm 37 hours a week but that doesn't count lunch breaks, most folk's conditioned hours don't count lunch breaks now.
If someone is driving a train with a mob of passengers, I'd like them to be properly fed and rested for the full length of the time they're at their job.
Also, I'm sure their working day doesn't consist solely of driving a choo-choo from A to B.
I'd guess there's pre and post journey prep/checks/admin that will be important to the safe conduct of train journeys.

Valid points but I guess my argument is that their conditions aren't as bad as they are sometimes made out. Plenty other folk would kill for that job. I was watching a thing about the new crossrail project and they had 20,000 applicants for their train drivers jobs.

[InversneckieDob]

Driverless trains will shut him up

Why?

[57vintage]

If only the UK was part of an international co-operative* organisation with something like erm…let’s say eeeeh…a Working Time Directive, to support safety at work and try to underpin a humane work/life balance.

*My late Ma’s Co-opy number was *#!* which cannot be revealed as it’s the only four-figure sequence burnt into my brain that I can remember, and acts as my PIN.

[InversneckieDob]

If only the UK was part of an international co-operative* organisation with something like erm…let’s say eeeeh…a Working Time Directive, to support safety at work and try to underpin a humane work/life balance.

*My late Ma’s Co-opy number was *#!* which cannot be revealed as it’s the only four-figure sequence burnt into my brain that I can remember, and acts as my PIN.

Commy sh1te.
Awa and bide in North Korea, see how you like that.
Common sense...etc.

[57vintage]

I’ll say cheerio to this discussion now, given that we’ve regressed to Macmillan’s ‘never had it so good’, Joseph’s ‘the market will ultimately decide’, and the apocryphal ‘let them eat cake’ remark by some 18th century Gallic monarch.

[mondo_notion]

‘let them eat cake’

There you go, a possible solution. Scoff their piece whist still driving the trains. They could get paid for their lunch hour.

[Donanddusted]

the apocryphal ‘let them eat cake’ remark by some 18th century Gallic monarch.

Tsk.
I'm pretty sure that was Paul Hollywood, the preening b@st@rd.

[donsdaft]

She was Austrian.