21st April 2010, 12:07 PM
Dirty Boy Wrote:While overtime is not "forced", it would be interesting to see how many staff are taken on who want to work as 48 hr max week, although I suppose if the firm gets more applications from staff who want extra hours than jobs, thats fine.
Never did see the point in longer days though. Productivity drops off dramatically as you increase hours in work, and it always seemed better to have more staff on site working "normal" hours.
I heartily agree, in fact on my last job I refused to do overtime as it was not at time and a half...which (unfortuneately) restricted the diggers opportunities to do overtime on my site (sorry guys). But I felt it important to stand up for my legal rights. Time and a half or don't do it!