6th October 2010, 08:09 PM
We (as a company) have looked for a way to 'grade' diggers for years but given up (apart from obvious things like chucking stuff like more jobs and more overtime at them) but it doesn't work, clients just look at number of shovels in action and will only pay a flat rate, they're not interested in paying for experience and skill. The couple of times 'experienced' and 'less experienced' pay rates have been tried here the 'less experienced' don't get why they're getting paid less.....pay scales for diggers in the merry world of non-council commercial archaeology don't seem to work too well, unless someone out there knows otherwise? Personally I think it's ******g outrageous that someone with 20-30 years of experience and who puts in a good day's work gets paid the same as someone with 2 weeks experience who can't use a shovel and spends all day counting down to 5 o'clock, mostly while hiding in the cabin. IFA don't help, they don't seem to think that long service deserves any particular recognition amongst diggers, their attitude seems to be that they if they haven't tried to 'better' themselves ...... :face-stir: