31st August 2008, 02:39 PM
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I think we are fairly certain about 1, 3 and poss. 4. however
Can we have some thoughts about 2. 5 and (er... 6. other than JIS)
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Borekickers
Of course improving conditions (point 2 I suppose) in various areas would help improved pay in its own right - in particular the practice of some organisations (which certainly has gone on and undoubtedly still does) of effectively expecting masses of overtime on top of a full weeks work. Being expected to travel 2 hours to site, do a full day and then travel 2 hours back is not unheard of - an extra 4 hours per day = 20 hours per week. So the wages are effecively being cut just because of that. Not to mention the difficulties this makes in comparing prices. I don't know if RAOs are in some way penalisable (if that's evan a word) for such things, but others won't be.
As for other mechanisms that the IFA can use (point 6) as I said before, I'm not sure the RAO system really works. It either comes across as 'buying honours' or means that organisations that are already probably trying to do the right thing open themselves up to scrutiny while those that arn't arn't. The IFA should be able to investigate complaints against anyone.