31st May 2006, 07:57 PM
people may be interested to note that all full-time employees at PCA (Lincoln)recieve bank holidays in addition to their leave entitlement of 20-22 days depending on grade. Wish it were more.
I would like to extend this to temporary workers as well, but unfortunately I have to include bank holidays as part of the 20 day minimum. The main reason for this is simply the commercial framework we work in. In simple terms, from a contract point of view, holiday is an overhead that needs factoring in; the higher the overheads, the more expensive the quote, the less likely we are to win the contract, more likely I have to make someone redundant.
Most other unit managers would agree, to a greater or lesser extent, and thus the only way to improve this is, as Peter writes, to establish a national framework.
At least I am upfront with what is on offer, but please don't assume that people in my position are seeking to take advantage of diggers: I don't know anybody who doesn't wan't the terms and conditions of the whole 'proffession' improved.
I would like to extend this to temporary workers as well, but unfortunately I have to include bank holidays as part of the 20 day minimum. The main reason for this is simply the commercial framework we work in. In simple terms, from a contract point of view, holiday is an overhead that needs factoring in; the higher the overheads, the more expensive the quote, the less likely we are to win the contract, more likely I have to make someone redundant.
Most other unit managers would agree, to a greater or lesser extent, and thus the only way to improve this is, as Peter writes, to establish a national framework.
At least I am upfront with what is on offer, but please don't assume that people in my position are seeking to take advantage of diggers: I don't know anybody who doesn't wan't the terms and conditions of the whole 'proffession' improved.