Subject: Contracted employees

ha. retire at 30? that means unless you also plan to live as a squatter, you will have to be mortgage free by that time. so, considering house prices, and your fluctuating age - previous posts you have claimed 17 & even 22 - that gives you say 10 - 15 years to save 250,000 - 300,000 for a 2 bedroom house... if you are lucky with prices. In 10 years time with the cost of living, you will probably need an average of say 30,000 p/a to live on (again very conservative estimate). say you live your 4 score years that gives you 50 years of life post retirement. So being very very generous with the figures, you will need to save around 2 million quid in the next 10 years - 200,000 per year. good luck.

seriously, the clause is there to help you and is a standard part of many contracts for the last 10 years. It does NOT give your employer the right to make you work those hours. Your contract will still state the contracted work hours of (almost certainly) 35 hours p/w. that is ALL you are contractually obliged to work.

or he could just destroy his brain with drugs and live on benefits.

That would probably work out more expensive.

for the government yes, for the individual it can be alarmingly cheap.

especially as said brain is already teetering somewhat

dont worry guys, ive invented something special

A brooch cunningly fashioned out of pure green?

Is it a tunnel dug underneath the stove?

is it as cunning as the off spring of a very cunning fox crossed with something very cunning indeed?

if it comes out of a hole, it's not an invention.

That's poo, or a rabbit.

wise words mate.

I submitted a departmental notice to HR today stating our grounds for opposing the new contracts, as it was the deadline for signing them. Result - contracts withdrawn pending amendments to make them relevant to our operational role and responsibilities (which is surely what they should have been to begin with).

Could be good, could be bad, but given that they couldn't even get our hours of work correct, I'm leaning towards it being good, especially as I've now discovered that there have been multiple refusals to sign across a broad spectrum of the company, up to director level.

It isn't just the peasants who are revolting..

Well done that man, the employee is always right!

I wonder if my Christmas bonus will suffer from magical deflation?
Current economic climate, prevailing downward pressures, negative growth in margins, downsizing of forward projections blah blah blah..?

I wouldn't know what a xmas bonus is like since i didn't even have a rise with inflation in 2.5 years in my old job. Bit worrying your contractual dispute has gone as high as director level though