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Post by M1104 on Nov 4, 2014 12:01:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2014 21:15:26 GMT
I have no understanding this, I don't get it. What's overtime? And holiday pay? I have my suspicions but I don't want to look a fool (it's happened one too many times though often it wasn't my fault). Could someone explain? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2014 21:49:00 GMT
I have no understanding this, I don't get it. What's overtime? And holiday pay? I have my suspicions but I don't want to look a fool (it's happened one too many times though often it wasn't my fault). Could someone explain? Overtime is pay that occurs when an indivdual works and extra non-rostered anomly day, wheras holiday pay is the pay an individual will get when they are on holiday. Most employees are entitled to 28 paid holiday days per year. This is holiday pay. |
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Post by snoggle on Nov 5, 2014 21:51:00 GMT
I have no understanding this, I don't get it. What's overtime? And holiday pay? I have my suspicions but I don't want to look a fool (it's happened one too many times though often it wasn't my fault). Could someone explain? In many jobs you are required to work for a defined number of hours per week (say 35 or 40). That is your contracted hours and your salary will often reflect the hours worked (hours x hourly rate of pay). If you work over your contracted hours then some jobs have a defined "overtime" rate which is usually higher than the basic hourly rate of pay. Sometimes if you work on Saturdays or Sundays or unsocial hours then there may be further enhanced pay rates. Many, but not all, people are paid holiday pay so even if they are on holiday their employer pays them something for that time - like a retention payment. The argument which relates to the legal judgement this week is that many people are paid only at the basic rate for holiday pay. Those who normally do a lot of overtime (and there are people who do this) lose out when on holiday because the fact that they would normally get far higher pay due to working overtime is not reflected in the calculation of holiday pay. See this Guardian article about the legal judgementIn the job I had I was a senior management grade so although I had contracted hours I had no entitlement to overtime at all. It was simply expected that you would work whatever hours were needed to get the job done. Obviously I was on a high salary which reflected the experience and responsibility of the job I was doing. I was quite adept at not taking work home and managing to keep to reasonable hours. However other people would work on the train to work, be in the office for 10 hours, work on the train home *and* work at home in the evenings and at weekends on a regular basis. Personally I thought that was nuts. However there times of genuine "you cannot miss the deadline" pressure that saw me in the office until gone 10 at night, in at weekends and rarely doing stuff at home. No overtime for any of that! I expect some of our drivers on here can explain in better detail how the different rates of pay work in the companies they work for. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2014 22:04:31 GMT
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Post by joefrombow on Nov 6, 2014 15:40:57 GMT
I agree totally and it should be mandatory that if you work over your contracted hours you get a enhancement to your pay !
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