12th October 2011, 08:30 PM
This all sounds particularly grim, made grimmer by the apologists who say things like 'well a job's a job' and 'I regularly do that/worse', thanks for condemning the rest of us! I'm no fan of unions but the anti-union is even worse. I know times are hard but this is sort of thinking is a slippery slope.
How this sort of thing is considered at all acceptable I really don't know, and yet it seems to happen all the time. What happened to reasonable travel time of up to an hour each way? Even that seems a lot sometimes. Not only that but how many jobs are advertised as '37 hours a week' or similar, only to then have four hours per day added on? How many companies are reported for this to BAJR? How many jobs are won on the basis of no accommodation and this sort of travelling? That is called exploitation!
Isn't this breach of contract anyway? And surely they are still contracted to organisation A even if they have been subcontracted (presumably without being consulted) to organisation B. It's just disgraceful!
How this sort of thing is considered at all acceptable I really don't know, and yet it seems to happen all the time. What happened to reasonable travel time of up to an hour each way? Even that seems a lot sometimes. Not only that but how many jobs are advertised as '37 hours a week' or similar, only to then have four hours per day added on? How many companies are reported for this to BAJR? How many jobs are won on the basis of no accommodation and this sort of travelling? That is called exploitation!
Isn't this breach of contract anyway? And surely they are still contracted to organisation A even if they have been subcontracted (presumably without being consulted) to organisation B. It's just disgraceful!