25th April 2012, 07:38 PM
P Prentice Wrote:blimey - i agree with unit and marcus though it pains me to agree with marcus
...and I love you, too, PP!:face-kiss:
the invisible man Wrote:Presumably these weren't "permanent" employees? I can't believe that even archaeologists would be that daft! I assume that these were people local to the head office, as it were, but employed on a fixed term contract for a specific project at the other end of the country? I'm not really sure whether to mark that down as exploitation see it is "well don't do it then..." Which is unfortunately the bottom line really. Employers do it because they can.
I'm afraid I don't have the details, as I only heard about it third-hand, but my understanding was that it was semi-permanent employees (been with the company for 6 months to a year, kept on over a number of projects), and that they were asked to work under those conditions to maintain their positions in the company, on the understanding that they would then still be in place when better-paid projects arose in the future. If I was absolutely certain of the facts, I'd have reported it, as the unit in question is an RO. I would say that I was told it by two separate people, who'd heard it from two different employees of the company in question. I did suggest that the employees concerned should contact the IfA informally, but I don't know whether it went anywhere.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum