21st April 2010, 01:36 PM
Austin Ainsworth Wrote:Good on ya, Jack.
A principled decision not to be exploited should be applauded. If we let employers get away with flat rate for overtime it will soon become the norm.
How did that job work out for your bosses when nobody was doing the overtime? Was the job extended or did the site crew have to do more work within the basic working week?
Good grief! No wonder British industry is all but extinct, all the call centres have moved abroad (actually no longer true, having moved all the call centres from Tyneside to India they're now moving some of them back because apparently people like to listen to a Geordie accent on the phone - strange world) and British archaeology, along with everything else that can't be moved abroad, is gradually being taken over by foreign labour!
Where there is no money for proper time-and-a-half overtime (like on Jack's job), why shouldn't people be allowed to better themselves (or at least their bank accounts) by earning some extra cash even if it is only at the rate that they actually signed up for in the first place?
Can't help feeling sometimes that some people posting on here would actually prefer to stay poor so that they can carry on moaning about it :face-stir: (no personal attack on you intended, Austin)