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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Just One More on March 08, 2011, 07:19:38 AM
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A whole day off. What will you be doing?
Similar to many others, I'll be doing the right thing and heading up to London, flags in hand, cheering along with others and celebrating a pretty joyous event... rugby
I believe there's also a wedding going on just a little further up the road, they best not get in my way
What are your plans?
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I shall be ignoring the whole thing ..... Rugby League noooo:
And the wedding will also be ignored.
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Avoiding the telly and radio seems an excellent plan! happy088
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I shall await the inevitable divorce eveilgrin:
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Trying feckin hard to be forced not to have to work evil:
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noooo:
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People Managment newsdesk 08 February 2011
Businesses criticised for not giving royal wedding day off
But 29 April will cost small firms dear, says FSB
Employers have been criticised for refusing to give staff the royal wedding day as an extra holiday by the GMB union.
The union has "named and shamed" two companies that plan to count 29 April 2011, the day of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, as a normal working day.
These employers are the Lancashire firm Interfloor, which has 400 staff, and concrete product manufacturer CPM, which employs 330 people. Both companies have both told staff that anyone who wants to take this day off will have to book it as part of their holiday entitlement.
Managers at Leeds hospital have also been criticised for requiring staff to work on the 29 April without any bank holiday pay bonus. However, hospital workers have been told they can take a day off later in the year.
Nick Gainsford, director at CPM, explained that his company could not afford to give its employees an extra day off as it would lose output worth £50,000 a day.
But Rachelle Wilkins, GMB organiser for the Midlands and East Coast Region, claimed the real reason was that the firm had received advice from an external HR consultant, which, after examining staff contracts, told the employer it could refuse to give the bank holiday as leave.
The government has declared the royal wedding date as a bank holiday but there is no statutory necessity under employment law to guarantee staff time off for bank and public holidays because they must abide by their employment contracts.
However, the GMB union said employers should offer the wedding day as a holiday as a gesture of goodwill.
The Federation of Small Businesses said: "We haven't got a clear steer from our members about how they are going to treat the royal wedding but, with each bank holiday costing the economy £6 billion, a lot is going to depend on how individual companies see whether they can afford it."
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I shall be about 1000 miles away, rehearsing for my participation in the 2012 Olympics !
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Referee: Ladies Beach Volleyball? eyes:
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<smug mode on>I'm retired, just another day to me.<smug mode off>
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As long as the rumoured office refurb doesnt take place I'll have 11 days off around then cloud9:
Assuming I still have the job by that point. scared2:
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We have today been asked to consider temporary 4 day weeks, or a permanent 35 hr week instead of 36 ( if only noooo: ) , or a long period of unpaid leave without a break in service , or just working in the term times for the family conscious employees noooo:
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Oh dear happy100
And how big is the Chief Exec's pay cut?
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We have today been asked to consider temporary 4 day weeks, or a permanent 35 hr week instead of 36 ( if only noooo: ) , or a long period of unpaid leave without a break in service , or just working in the term times for the family conscious employees noooo:
happy100 You certainly don't want to spend any more time with TB than you have to. whistle:
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My thoughts exactly Miss C - otherwise I may be spending my time courtesy of her majesty lol:
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Oh dear happy100
And how big is the Chief Exec's pay cut?
Wot Nick said ^^^
I spec we know the answer to that one tho.... noooo:
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As long as the rumoured office refurb doesnt take place I'll have 11 days off around then cloud9:
Same here.... planning a big trip to celebrate the boys special birthdays..... noooo: the youngest tells us he has a field trip for 3 days right in the middle. ::)
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Same here.... planning a big trip to celebrate the special boy's birthday..... noooo:
whistle:
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Brighton?
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Brighton?
lol: lol: lol:
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If it's sunny I shall be in the garden if not I will be visiting one of the local garden centres - should be quite quiet then. cloud9:
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Same here.... planning a big trip to celebrate the special boys' birthdays..... noooo:
whistle:
You had put the apostrophy in the wrong place of course. whistle:
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[cough] apostrophe
Anyhoo will you fight apc for me? He said horrid things about my odometer sad24:
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[cough] apostrophe
Anyhoo will you fight apc for me? He said horrid things about my odometer sad24:
eeek: eeek: eeek:
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I need an odd-o-meter.
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I need an odd-o-meter.
See, Miss C thought the same as me .............. ;D ;D
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I need an odd-o-meter.
You'd end up spending a fortune replacing the damn thing every time Nick came within 100 miles. lol:
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I still have her dongle noooo: