1st September 2008, 12:07 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Oxbeast
I would like to see standardisation in terms of travel time, and more equality across the board generally. Someone I know was recently workign for a company that asked her to turn out to the office for 7am. This meant getting up at just gone 5, and driving in. A two hour drive to site, and the pay starts from 9am. I think that if the office is in your contract as your normal place of work, and they ask you to turn up at 7, that is when they pay should start. It is somewhat dispiriting to do a 12 hour day for 7.5 hour's pay.
It also means that clients don't really know what they are getting - if an 8 hour day really means a 12 hour day how are they supposed to compare. As for different organisations costing against each other it is a joke. As for staff, I can't believe people put up with it. Someone is going to get killed on account of having done an extra 4 hours a day for several days on the trot, there must be some H&S regulations against it.
As I said, making up the short-fall in pay would be a lot easier and could justifiably be more gradual if conditions such as these were improved.
I've said before and I'll say it again - why can't the IFA investigate complaints against any organisation or individual? Even just keeping them on file would surely be worthwhile. Only investigating members and RAOs largely pointless as they are the ones who are most likely to behave. It's a bit like the police randomly arresting law-abiding citizens and ignoring known criminals - as if that would ever happen!