Pay scales

[kevin wooldridge]

The most recent advert for jobs at Network Archaeology offers ?280 per week for a 40 hour week. My calculation suggests that equals ?259 per week for a 37 hour week and therefore falls below the recently revised BAJR pay minima. Any chance Host, of a word in the ear of said firm?

[BAJR Host]

Thanks for that, I did indeed enter into a long negotiation before the advert appeared (the good old paddling duck feet that nobody knows about) but in fact they are providing "paid lunch" which is fine.

I do keep an eye out.... though sometimes I am caught out..... but of course all that anyone ever sees are the final adverts .... not the emails and phone calls and deals that happen behind the scenes.

so in 'real' terms they are actually paying for a 37.5 hour WORKING week....

so are paying above the minimum.

I have been talking with the IFA and we agree that we have to clarify who is paying what and when... etc


initial comment from the IFA:

quote:the 37.5 hours is exclusive of lunch breaks. Where the standard week exceeds 37.5 hours, as from 1 April 2007, RAOs will be expected to provide a salary enhancement to reflect this. As yet, we do not have the 2007/8 salary figures, but, based on the current salary figures, that enhancement would, at a PIFA level, be circa. ?374.49 pa (pro rata) for every hour over and above 37.5 - excluding lunches - Clear as mud ?

Another day another WSI?

[troll]

Oh-thats ok then.The fact that much of the accommodation provided has been rejected by homeless asylum-seekers and fell off the "for sale" market is irrelevent I suppose.The fact that hideous compromises are made on the ground by those who should`nt and- no comfirmation of IFA RAO status forthcoming is all mitigated against as they provide "paid lunch". Cool.We can all rest easy in our beds now.

..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)

[drpeterwardle]

I think there is a need for greater clarity with the pay scales. At the moment "The weekly rate is based on a calculation based on 37 hours work per 5 day week with no holiday pay entitlement)they are for 37 hours and no holiday pay."

For example how does holiday & sick pay entitlements affect the minimums? Similarly does the 37 hours include paid tea breaks? David is using a very simple system which I think may be confusing the situation.

Peter

[BAJR Host]

The simple system is indeed simple Peter... and that's why we need
a) full clarification about what exactly it means (clear as mud at the moment)
b)tea breaks are not included -

Under the Working Time Directive (which applies to most adult workers and sets out the minimum standards for working hours), your employer has to offer a break of at least 20 minutes if the working day is longer than 6 hours. Under these minimum standards, if your lunch break is over 20 minutes, it counts as your full entitlement to a break for that day.

As to holiday entitlements, pension rights and Sickness, these are being introduced by the IFA in April 2007, BAJR is supporting this with a series of new tick boxes on the adverts that show clearly whether the employer is providing thee rights.

It should be remembered that legaly, you only need to get 20 days holiday a year, and strictly speaking sickness and pension rights are only given after a set time working for the company, BUT, the IFA, BAJR and PROSPECT are asking that these rights are given freely - and that holidays also include bank holidays etc. (which is not required at present)



Another day another WSI?

[drpeterwardle]

Is there any reason why the basic terms and conditions could not be included in the adverts now. Or reference is made to the fact that the person is employed under the SCAUM standard contract.

I think the statement

"the IFA, BAJR and PROSPECT are asking that these rights are given freely"

is naive - these all has to be paid for.

Peter