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If no archaeology's getting destroyed by people building things then that's pretty much all of the people using this website scr***d then, starting with the diggers, the people who manage them, the specialists who look at the stuff they dig up, the curators who deal with the planning etc, the academics who justify their existence by teaching/training all of the above, etc etc......expect there'll still be seasonal work on the Time Team until Channel 4 pulls the plug on that....Bigpicture, how is that 'a bit of light' for British archaeology???? :0
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Don't worry............it'll all change come the asteroid
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Just to briefly return to the topic.. (my fault)
Do people even think they are going to involve themselves or is their an increasing sense of 'what will be will be' fatalism?
Following discussion at IfA Council and elsewhere on the future of IfA minimum salary recommendations, Council tasked a working group consisting of representatives of Council, IfA?s Working Practices and Registered Organisations Committees, Diggers Forum and Responsible Post Holders to investigate the potential to develop recommendations for remuneration packages including ?reasonable? starting salary ranges for the different IfA grades of membership. The salary benchmarking report was also updated.
IfA is now seeking member views on this matter. Kate Geary has prepared a consultation letter -
http://www.archaeologists.net/module...tter100610.pdf
Please do download and read this and send Kate your views.
http://www.archaeologists.net/module...hp?storyid=502
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Think we already worked through all the pros and cons of IFA membership a month or two back, and IFA are clearly only interested in the views of their paid-up members (so much for claiming to represent the archaeological/heritage industry), so no, looks like the other 50%+ will have to stick with the fatalism, sorry :face-crying:
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I think that the ifa is not full up with paid up members but members who get their membership paid for by their employers and if we were to chase the monies back we would find that there was a civil service subsidy in it....FOI
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fair enough.. point taken B)
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i very much doubt that the point was taken far enough
the ifa is full of
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I think to be honest most people have looked at what's been suggested and gone:
Yes please! I'd like a several grand payrise!
Now, how the hell is this going to work?
I don't think its a case of what will be, more the massive question of how this new level of wages will actually happen in the commerical market.
I will be replying to the package alongside wages once I've had a good look at the proposals though. I think most people in permanent posts have reasonable packages, its going to take more thought on how you gain sick time, pensions, etc. when you're constantly being passed from unit to unit.
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It's the short contract mobile digging force that have always been the real issue on a lot of these threads, they don't 'fit in' to any normal employment template....the Inland Revenue just get confused if you 'employ' someone for 3 days, they spend half the job filling in employment-related beaurocracy and they only accrue a few minutes leave entitlement....
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i used to have my pay docked for minutes late... so a minutes holiday would have been useful!
