(19 Nov 2023, 9:01 am)DeltaMan wrote Spotted this on Twitter. No wonder the industry is short of drivers.
https://twitter.com/thebonnylad/status/1...nzSR3MrWlQ&s=19
Yet more ridiculous fake news posted on social media to suit an agenda during the current dispute.
This duty is specific to the agency driver working on that contract. The agency drivers will work much longer shifts than one of the company’s own colleagues, to any conditions which are legal. They do this to maximise the amount of money they get paid on these contracts, and know what they are signing up for before they agree to work at any company for the agency.
This type of duty would not and could not be imposed on one of the company’s own colleagues. It does not conform to the Union agreements of any depot. Even if there were no Union agreements forbidding this, it would not rota well on a 39-hour week (as opposed to the agency drivers’ guaranteed 55-hour week), so would never be planned like this.
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