31st May 2007, 10:52 PM
At the moment diggers (particularly those with any experience) are in short supply, so now is the time to vote with your feet. If you are working for a company giving diggers less holidays and inferior sick pay conditions than to those in more permanent and office positions, simply leave. You are being exploited and there are plenty of units who will provide more reasonable conditions. Hopefully companies such as the one Trowelfodder has recently left will buck their ideas up if all their experienced staff leave, helping to better conditions nationwide. However, if they are who I think they are I suspect they'll just get more trainees in....
I can see how some companies may see giving better conditions to established staff as a loyalty bonus, though people lucky enough to have permanent jobs (in field or office) should be more than happy enough with that. It's the poor digger on statutory minimum sick pay and leave who suffers when trying to take time off to go to a doctor to get something for that painful rash incurred after days of bailing freezing standing water....
I can see how some companies may see giving better conditions to established staff as a loyalty bonus, though people lucky enough to have permanent jobs (in field or office) should be more than happy enough with that. It's the poor digger on statutory minimum sick pay and leave who suffers when trying to take time off to go to a doctor to get something for that painful rash incurred after days of bailing freezing standing water....