Troll, thanks for your email which was forwarded to me, I'll get back to you in a few days if that's ok, needless to say colleagues at the DF have been quietly working away on the issue of validation behind the scenes for some time and have made some progress.
Anyway, a blatant 'bump' for this thread and the survey, I hope everyone has been filling in the survey, especially short-contract workers and lower level field staff. Quite surprised at the lack of any comments on here about travel and accomodation given the vociferous nature of posts in the past, everyone suddenly gone shy?! Surely not!
Here's your chance to set out what you feel about the extra hours you work, or the extra costs you incur. The range of practice across the country is quite staggering and even without doing a lot of number crunching it clearly shows that subs and travel time can make a big difference to many digger's basic pay. But we need more data to see exactly how it all evens out. When the survey is shut we'll start trying to analyse the data to see exactly what the big issues are, and what might be done to improve matters -if they need improving- but if we don't have the data then we won't have any evidence to back our arguments. This is YOUR opportunity to participate in developing the profession and give us the data to try and make a difference.
So please feel free to tell us what YOU think about what is a very complex issue that affects all of us fieldworkers.
Anyway, a blatant 'bump' for this thread and the survey, I hope everyone has been filling in the survey, especially short-contract workers and lower level field staff. Quite surprised at the lack of any comments on here about travel and accomodation given the vociferous nature of posts in the past, everyone suddenly gone shy?! Surely not!
Here's your chance to set out what you feel about the extra hours you work, or the extra costs you incur. The range of practice across the country is quite staggering and even without doing a lot of number crunching it clearly shows that subs and travel time can make a big difference to many digger's basic pay. But we need more data to see exactly how it all evens out. When the survey is shut we'll start trying to analyse the data to see exactly what the big issues are, and what might be done to improve matters -if they need improving- but if we don't have the data then we won't have any evidence to back our arguments. This is YOUR opportunity to participate in developing the profession and give us the data to try and make a difference.
So please feel free to tell us what YOU think about what is a very complex issue that affects all of us fieldworkers.