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Great. Another benefit for the salaried over the hourly. I couldn't find a solid answer, but I very much doubt that this pronouncement comes with a 20% raise
by sandworm101 4y ago
Great. Another benefit for the salaried over the hourly. I couldn't find a solid answer, but I very much doubt that this pronouncement comes with a 20% raise for everyone paid by the hour.
- onion2k 4y agoI imagine a council the size of Glasgow won't have any hourly staff. All those jobs would have been contracted out years ago.
- sandworm101 4y agoExactly. They don't have hourly workers. Neither do Amazon nor Uber. So they can grant all sorts of holidays to "all employees", which really just means the managers. A 4-day week applicable only to office-working executives and managers is no victory for labor. Imho it is more a failure.
- happyopossum 4y ago> They don't have hourly workers. Neither do Amazon I don't know about Uber, but Amazon has tons of hourly workers - over 750k in fact. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/amazon-to-hire-125000-employees-averaging-18-an-hour.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/amazon-to-hire-125000-employ...
- LatteLazy 4y agoThis just means you do 4, 10h days instead of 5 , 8h days. It's the same hours overall.
- zamadatix 4y agoThat would be a 4x10 which isn't the only option for a 4 day work week. TFA describes the council seeking a 20% reduction in hours worked at the same pay not a crunch of the same hours into a 20% smaller timespan.
- sandworm101 4y agoI don't think so. I think this is an actual reduction in the amount of time spent at work, hence the promise to maintain productivity. I think this is a three-day weekend every weekend.
- calpaterson 4y agoIt would need to be a 25% raise for 4 days of wages to be paid as 5.