dockingtrade
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How can unpaid time be 'holidays'. Do you call your weekends 'holidays'. We are having our hours cut and that is what people call it in the Private Sector. Calling it 'holidays' implies its some kind of benefit or treat for public servants. And yes, a lot of us are 'paranoid' given the crap we've had to take from the media and message boards over the past year.
Look at it this way, the goverment has to drop spending or raise taxes by €941 per head of population EACH YEAR, for the next 5 years.
How can unpaid time be 'holidays'.
Out of curiousity, how many vacation days do permanent public servants get a year - I heard it was 30 plus 12 flexi days - is that true?
Would people please stop describing flexi days as leave. It's flexible working hours. Therefore if you work up an extra day's hours in a month, you are allowed to take those extra hours off in one go (ie a flexi day). Its a handy resource, but it's not time off.
Out of curiousity, how many vacation days do permanent public servants get a year - I heard it was 30 plus 12 flexi days - is that true?
If I take a friday off to make a long weekend I call it a holiday, on the other hand if someone is put on a 3 day week you wouldn't call that a holiday.
I'm not quite sure of the terminology you would use to refer to 12 days over a year when we don't know how it would be implemented. Given the circumstances I certainly wouldn't be dogmatic about what these 12 days would be referred to as.
Compulsory unpaid leave would be an accurate description. 'Holidays' has a certain implication.
Maybe instead of getting paranoid you should just worry about doing a good job and accept that you work in a loosely bound organisation of 250,000 people whose employer can't afford to maintain total wages at a current level.
What on earth has this got to do with my post? Or do you just like preaching?
Apologies if I caused offence.
So if you work 6.5 hours overtime in the month, you get a day off. Would the vast majority of public sector avail of the flexi days per month?
I imagine work an extra 30 mins for 13 days (or equivalent) would be handy enough. So if this is the case, do PS workers really want extra days off (unpaid) a year? Have the unions got this wrong on PS behalf?
I think since the so called 'truce thread' it has actually gotten worse if anything!
Slightly of topic. Will those private sector posters please stop the sniping and whining at their public sector counterparts. It's becoming particularly annoying and a complete and utter waste of time. I'm a Public servant that has done my bit in Private industry, got my qualifications and now works damn hard at my job serving the public. I, and most of my colleagues are sick to the teeth of remarks by people in the private sector. We see the state of the countries finances and genuinly have no problem with cuts but the water level in the well is drying up!! Stop the bickering. There are many forums on aam that are full of public sector bashing. Enough is enough!!
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