19th October 2011, 01:45 PM
I still don't get it. I may be dumb, or misunderstanding - my head is full of contexts and arguments for more money.............
Are you saying that on a short-term contract (say a 3-week dig) an employer forces the diggers to not take the...erm....the few days holiday they have accrued and pay them money instead? Whats the benefit to the employer doing this? Surely it'll cost the same to the employer whether the digger works or is on holiday? And surely (in most cases) it wont matter to the employee? (I may be missing the point)
I can see that on a project basis though, it would mean that the job would take less time if the diggers are all on site every day of the job.
Is the issue freedom of choice? As for us with contracts still have to ask to take a particular day/week off, the company still has to function, can't have everyone off on the same week if you wanna keep that competitive edge. But as I work for a reasonable company there's never been much of an issue.
Maybe there's an (non-too specific) example of excessive unreasonable enforcement of holiday rolling up that would help me understand the issue?
Are you saying that on a short-term contract (say a 3-week dig) an employer forces the diggers to not take the...erm....the few days holiday they have accrued and pay them money instead? Whats the benefit to the employer doing this? Surely it'll cost the same to the employer whether the digger works or is on holiday? And surely (in most cases) it wont matter to the employee? (I may be missing the point)
I can see that on a project basis though, it would mean that the job would take less time if the diggers are all on site every day of the job.
Is the issue freedom of choice? As for us with contracts still have to ask to take a particular day/week off, the company still has to function, can't have everyone off on the same week if you wanna keep that competitive edge. But as I work for a reasonable company there's never been much of an issue.
Maybe there's an (non-too specific) example of excessive unreasonable enforcement of holiday rolling up that would help me understand the issue?