12th October 2011, 04:30 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:I wouldn't disagree with that sentiment, but for all the reasons you have suggested that benefit the company involved, you might think that a small compromise to allow traveling time to be paid would be a useful method of rewarding staff for their flexibility....
Kevin - I agree flexibility has to go both ways. It is a delicate balance, some units are operating pretty much hand-to-mouth at the moment. Like you I think a comprimise allowing travel to be paid would be a sensible meeting point. But with my devil's advocate hat on again - if we say for example there are four members of staff being subbed out, four hours travel a day, five day week - that equals 80 hours (more if at an overtime rate) = two members of staff's wages. It might simply be a case of the sums not stacking up, maybe subbing out four was thought by the unit to be better than subbing out two and laying off two?