11th March 2008, 12:38 PM
My understanding of what the IFA require is 20 days + bank holidays and the new legal requirements do not make any difference to this. So why has the Bajr amount of holiday been changed? How can you justify this action?
There has been a basic difficulty with pay and conditions in archaeology for 30 years - the link with local authority pay scale.
The tenders to cover the pay rise were done several months ago so it is simply not acceptable to be told that pay must increase a couple of weeks before they are implemented or worse still many months late. Apologies are simply not good enough when it comes to matters like this.
In my view what must be done if the IFA/BAJR is going to impose pay scales without collective bargaining is to have a date on which the new pay rates are applied and for that to be set six months in advance. From the date of the award if a company/organisation does not conform then they should face the penalty. If the local authority units cannot conform for what ever reason they should be made to face the consequences.
As things stand the actions of the IFA/BAJR are, in my view, anti-competitive and favour the public sector. This is unacceptable. We hear a lot about employee rights on BAJR and very little about the employer?s rights. It is about time us employers had a real voice on these matters and not another round of ?consultations? on a done deal.
So David are you going to change the holiday allowance or not - it has been pointed out that you have misunderstood the law - or can you give a reason why the holiday allowance has been increased?
Peter
There has been a basic difficulty with pay and conditions in archaeology for 30 years - the link with local authority pay scale.
The tenders to cover the pay rise were done several months ago so it is simply not acceptable to be told that pay must increase a couple of weeks before they are implemented or worse still many months late. Apologies are simply not good enough when it comes to matters like this.
In my view what must be done if the IFA/BAJR is going to impose pay scales without collective bargaining is to have a date on which the new pay rates are applied and for that to be set six months in advance. From the date of the award if a company/organisation does not conform then they should face the penalty. If the local authority units cannot conform for what ever reason they should be made to face the consequences.
As things stand the actions of the IFA/BAJR are, in my view, anti-competitive and favour the public sector. This is unacceptable. We hear a lot about employee rights on BAJR and very little about the employer?s rights. It is about time us employers had a real voice on these matters and not another round of ?consultations? on a done deal.
So David are you going to change the holiday allowance or not - it has been pointed out that you have misunderstood the law - or can you give a reason why the holiday allowance has been increased?
Peter