Because apparently it's time 'we all pulled together and offered to help'
Friends in the public sector also refer to it as leave. The guy I talked about earlier pointed out that a 39 hour week is standard in the SME sector so giving public sector employees a day off because they just working a standard SME week, while technically a flexi-day, is really just an extra days holidays.Your post was in response to people pointing out that you had incorrectly included flexi time as leave. You then came back with an argument about why you didn't agree with flexi time. That was not relevant to the point.
You call enforcing a blanket pay cut on a particular sector 'pulling together?' Many in the private sector have also not endured any pay cuts.
Civil Service Annual Leave
Secretary 31 days
Deputy Secretary 31 days
Assistant Secretary 31 days
Principal (standard scale) 29 days
Assistant Principal (standard scale) 29 days
Administrative Officer 21 days, rising to 26 days after 5 years' service
Higher Executive Officer 26 days
Executive Officer 20 days, rising to 21 days after 5 years' service
Staff Officer 21 days
Clerical Officer 20 days
Services Officer 20 days
Services Attendant 20 days
I am a public sector worker. I am not entitled to flexi time and am required to work one and a half days one day a week and a half day every saturday (i'm off mondays). I get too many holidays (31) and would be more than willing to cut back on the number I get but this has never been suggested by the unions (i'm not in a union). My pay was down a day's wages this week because the unions caused my office to to be closed for the strike last week. I end up doing a lot of work from home because of the nature of my work a lot of my time is taken up dealing with the public so I do a lot of my admin and email work remotely when I get home from work (childcare arrangements don't allow me to stay in work after public opening hours). Cut backs and the moratorium has increased my workload significantly but I am happy to work as I am because I enjoy my work and feel I am providing a valuable service to the community. I was relocated to my current office due to the moratorium meaning my household must now run 2 cars for work as myself and my husband used to work in the same town and now we don't. I had no choice in the move and received no financial benefit from it (not suggesting i should). I have always paid pension contributions before the pension levy even though because of the age I started in public sector I will not have full 40 years service when I finish.
Anyway my suggestion is that everyone is moved back to the previous pay scale on their incremental scale and that there are no increments for 2 years then increments are given every 2 years instead of every year if someone has reached their targets set out in PMDS. I would also be willing to work 40 hours a week instead of 35 for the same money therefore increasing the access to services at no extra cost. This push back in the incremental scale should apply to people on public sector pensions too and another saving could be made there.
Anyway my suggestion is that everyone is moved back to the previous pay scale on their incremental scale and that there are no increments for 2 years then increments are given every 2 years instead of every year if someone has reached their targets set out in PMDS. I would also be willing to work 40 hours a week instead of 35 for the same money therefore increasing the access to services at no extra cost. This push back in the incremental scale should apply to people on public sector pensions too and another saving could be made there.
The unions knew it wasn’t a runner but also knew that they would be blasted by the general public and many of their own members if they went on strike again so they put it out in the media that the unpaid leave was a government proposal and that they likes it as an excuse to call off the strike.
Basically it’s all out of the Comrades Stalinist disinformation play-book.
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