(26 Nov 2023, 4:15 pm)DeltaMan wrote They could only do that if all locations had the very same depot layouts for walk times, break locations, relief points and first use checks times etc.
If you harmonise pay, then the eventual end argument is should a driver in Newcastle be paid the same as a driver in London. It is essentially the same job after all...
If I work in Tesco from 8 to 4 and I get 45 minutes paid break, but my mate in ALDI does the same shift , gets the same break length unpaid, which company has the more productive staff?
Dunno. Probably so many factors and differences, that it's hard to draw generalisations between the two.
You may be doing one task for the full 7 and a bit hours and your mate at Aldi may be doing a couple of tasks.
Your colleague at Tesco may not be doing as much as you. Ditto your mates colleague at Aldi compared to him.
Are they more productive or are they simply multi-tasking?
As an SNE driver isn't likely to have his tools to do a bit of fitting by the side of the road, then I don't get the point being made that an SNE driver is somehow more productive or multi-tasks more than the GNE driver.