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Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

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whippet
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Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by whippet »

Does anyone have any official info on the 24 minute high season hours change next week.
BenacreNick
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by BenacreNick »

Not really, we are having a vote to decide the new seasonal start/finish times.

I just hope someone somewhere is logging all of these variations and knows where we are up to in terms of working the correct hours over 1 financial year.

Can anyone honestly say they know where they are up to.

Wasn't there a guy on here about 3 months ago who claimed we were way out ?
chickenwittle
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by chickenwittle »

24 minutes extra at start of our duty time has been confirmed at our office.
funkflex55
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by funkflex55 »

Amazing planning from RM that it begins next week and it's still not confirmed what's going on.
sjscfc84
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by sjscfc84 »

I seen a print off today by our log in about this, what is it? I’m a newbie so haven’t a clue about this
TopperGas
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by TopperGas »

BenacreNick wrote:
12 Nov 2024, 19:10
Not really, we are having a vote to decide the new seasonal start/finish times.

I just hope someone somewhere is logging all of these variations and knows where we are up to in terms of working the correct hours over 1 financial year.

Can anyone honestly say they know where they are up to.

Wasn't there a guy on here about 3 months ago who claimed we were way out ?
Vote about what, haven't the CWU already agreed we'll start 24 mins earlier from next week? If we don't start earlier we'll then start owing RM time?
fadetogrey63
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by fadetogrey63 »

Manager said we have to work 10 mins later everyday from next week, also something bout the early sorters starting earlier
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by SWIM »

9 minutes earlier .. 15 minutes later.
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by Mr Rush »

funkflex55 wrote:
12 Nov 2024, 20:31
Amazing planning from RM that it begins next week and it's still not confirmed what's going on.
The whole arrangement fell apart very quickly once we had an ad-hoc low season in March. It would be a fair implementation if the year was evenly split between low, mid, and high and those dates were known to all in advance.

Between starting times varying by day of the week, the Network change, increase of hours, and Seasonal Variation; I walked into work one Saturday unsure if I was on time or late. I was going to ask a colleague but he asked me the question first.
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SWIM
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by SWIM »

what other company constantly changes start and finish times? 🤦‍♂️
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by Trumanity »

SWIM wrote:
12 Nov 2024, 21:57
what other company constantly changes start and finish times? 🤦‍♂️
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derekm
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by derekm »

Cwu said it would be 24 minutes early start for f/T & think it’s 10 minutes p/T seems that’s the agreed procedure. If other offices are doing it differently then that’s up to them.
thefox
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by thefox »

Yip it's meant to be early starts not finishing a minute later .
Zicomurphy
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by Zicomurphy »

BenacreNick wrote:
12 Nov 2024, 19:10
Not really, we are having a vote to decide the new seasonal start/finish times.

I just hope someone somewhere is logging all of these variations and knows where we are up to in terms of working the correct hours over 1 financial year.

Can anyone honestly say they know where they are up to.

Wasn't there a guy on here about 3 months ago who claimed we were way out ?
I vaguely remember them saying that after these next five weeks everything will be balanced out and we will all have worked the correct amount of hours.

If they persevere with it next year I reckon it might be a lot simpler. 5 shorter weeks in August and 5 longer weeks in the lead up to Christmas. I don’t think the workload at any other time of the year varies enough to justify shorter or longer weeks.
fadetogrey63
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Re: Seasonal hours change 18th Nov

Post by fadetogrey63 »

thefox wrote:
13 Nov 2024, 06:41
Yip it's meant to be early starts not finishing a minute later .
Interesting, our manager def said 10 minutes later each day.. the union reps need to find this out,