As some of you may be aware RPBM have been bought by Towergate Partnership. I have just received a renewal invitation from Towergate which is more than £60 over what I was paying with RPBM for the same thing. What companies are other people using?

Careful, it might be hallucinogEeEe**33nnnn..

At the moment BAJR (well ermmm.. em) suggests that the national acepted standard of allowing 1 hour at either end of the day is for travel to and from place of work and home. (therefore is not paid) anything over that should be either paid OR the company should consider putting people up in accomodation closer to work...

Think also of the health and safety aspect of travelling while tired after a long days work!

What do people do/think?

Would you feel it acceptable to have to leave at six in the morning so you could be at work for 8:30am on site and then have to get home at 7:30 after finishing work at 5pm?

Suggestions and comments and perhaps even how you work with this issue.

"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

As many of you will know, the IFA base their pay rise on LGA pay scales, however this year Unison and the Employers are at loggerheads
The Chancellor wants 2% but as the most recent retail price index is running at 4.2 per cent, the public sector union Unison points out that anything less than that would amount to a pay cut.

Unison's head of local government, Heather Wakefield is quoted as saying: "The increase in average earnings will be 5.5 per cent by the final quarter of 2007, so the chancellor's 2 per cent is meaningless to our members. We've made it clear that the employers needn't bother offering that."

The Union's Claim (a bit like the BAJR suggestion)

? For any deal to be for one year.
? For 5 per cent or £1,000, whichever is greater.
? For a minimum hourly rate of £6.30.
? For one day's extra annual leave for all employees.
? For an increase in basic minimum annual leave entitlement to 25 days.
? For a reduction in the standard working week to 35 hours, without loss of pay.
? For an increase in the night shift allowance over three years from time and one-third to time and a half, to time and three-quarters, to double time.
? For an increase in the sleep-in allowance to £60.

April is coming and clear guidance is needed. BAJR can only provide guidance on minimum pay based on level of responsibility for adverts placed with BAJR. I have no rights to tell people what to pay their staff, I can however only allow those that pay the absolute minima or more to advertise. This also goes for posts that are not advertised, where if a company pays (for example) diggers at the basic rate, but all other members at a lesser rate, the company will not be able to advertise until it is able to commit to review and change. (a situation that has arisen several times and been successfully resolved with this action strengthening the claim).

I will be bringing out full guidance based on the consultation document sent to 183 companies.

basically it stands at

A suspected 3.5% pay rise (as minimum)
A requested 5% rise (this will be up to the individual company - and will not be enforced - however companies that DO pay above the 5% minima will be highlighted.)
Holiday and sickness rights will be required for all staff
Pensions will be left to individuals... it is a complex matter, and I can only suggest that both employers and employees know their rights.. (see: http://www.thepensionservice.gov.uk/employer/ )

There are new intermediate grades to allow for junior positions/ senior positions - with the caveat that junior positions are designed for short term periods to evaluate whether the person is reafdy for the higher grade, and should not be used as permenant positions.

Job titles are not important, it is the level of responsibility that is expected of you in your work.. also the pay is minima only... there is nothing to stop a person from being paid more - you could be doing a G3 job but be getting the money that looks like a G7! The grade is useful only in working out what you do and what the minimum base pay should be.

Please get in contact if you need more information or wish to discuss any particular element

remember the original document can be found here
(rates of pay are based on 5% rise)




"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

Am currently digitising oodles of plans and storing them on Acrobat.As I am particularly blonde today-how does one group them together in files? Many thanks to all

..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2...umns01.txt

Quote:quote:Sounds far-fetched to a generation raised to think of archaeologists as bull-whip-wielding Indiana Joneses, but to anyone who has ever spent any time studying archaeology, it makes perfect sense. The fact of the matter is that archaeologists and anthropologists are some of the most boring people in the world.

well maybe not an empire.. more a small sandbank...

but ready for later this year..

BAJR Media presents

BAJR Radio
http://www.bajr.org/radio.blog

BAJR Video (this week Bamburgh Excavations)
http://www.bajr.org/BAJRTV.htm

BAJR-Stonepages News Podcast
http://www.pupuplatters.com/pupuplayer/f...odcast.xml

and yes I was a bit pissed last week!

watch out for more!

or let me know of how to do it better? any ideas or hints!

"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

Due to a slip of my mouse I accidentaly deleted rather than edited the post.

I did manage to recover the first page.. which I now have on archive on my computer

As Reggie point out... the need for some editing was required, as it was daft to have the posts for why he was removed still online, after they were the reason he was removed in the first place.

To summerise..

After careful consideration and following the stated sequence of Private Warnings followed by a public warning I have come to the sad conclusion that the presence and attitude of Unit of One - is incompatible with the aims, views and acceptable policy for this forum.

In particular there has been a problem in posts where some could find either offence, including pointed statements against organsiations or individuals (without prior checking with the BAJR Host to ensure I am happy with these public statements - as stated in AUP) or incomprehensibility that added nothing to the thread (as stated in AUP).

Once it has been shown that this will not re-occur, the ban will be lifted, on the understanding that the AUP is there to protect us all, and is not there to limit discussion, only moderate it.. (note Britarch in recent days!! )

If anybody would like a copy of what I recovered .. pleae get in touch.

Unit of One has replied that he is happy for his posts to remain.. to ensure the forum threads remain in context.

thanks


"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

Having been working away for a few weeks and finding it nigh on impossible to get online over the weekends at my local library (today has been a complete fluke). I have had an epiphany.

How about putting BAJR on WAP (that's the internet via mobile phone for anyone who isn't up to date on technology)? That way I can keep an eye on the jobs pages for something closer to home, and possibly read the forum, and not feel so left out of the loop as I have been the last few months (not having internet at home is driving me mad, but no-one will do anything less than a 12month contract for broadband and its not worth it when I'm planning on moving in the next few months).

I've no idea how it would work, costs etc. (I'm not that good with technology) but as I can check my emails via WAP, the know-how to do the same with BAJR must be out there somewhere.

Just a thought.

"a pound of shelled peanuts was handsome pay by any apes standards" Pratchett 1998

Afore I lose my mind totaly something rather interesting happened

comments from the mix of BAJR ?

a bold step forward?
nearly but not quite?
a safety line with a barbed hook?
or what....?

Go to
http://www.bajr.org/bajrforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1144
to discuss it!

:face-huh:

"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?i...gy#g1272.3

Quote:quote:Robert Key (Salisbury, Conservative) Link to this | Hansard source

The renaissance programme is welcome, but of course the more people who go to our museums and the more television programmes that are made, the greater the profile of archaeology and the bigger the problem of storage, especially of archaeological finds. I would be grateful if the Minister would make an assessment of that problem in the coming months, as many museums and county archaeology services are completely at their wits' end about what to do with all the finds that have to be dug up because of planning permissions and so on. It is becoming a serious financial burden on local authorities and independent regional museums.

Quote:quoteavid Lammy (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Culture, Media & Sport) Link to this | Hansard source

It is right that the hon. Gentleman acknowledges the huge success of the portable antiquities scheme, which has meant that many local finds go to our local museums, but it is probably also right to say that for most museums only between 10 and 20 per cent. of their collections are exhibited. A lot can never be exhibited because our museums plays a key role in the academic study of artefacts and contribute to our knowledge base for those artefacts and their history. We are exploring with the MLA how we can increase touring, especially, in dialogue with our colleagues in Europe, to eastern Europe. I hope that that, in particular, will increase people's access to all that wonderful treasure.