bramling
Veteran Member
you would have thought that bank holiday working would be quite popular with the right incentive,(ie time*2+day in lieu)
likewise for emergency/weekend shift(lets say time *1.5)..you don't want saturday Or sunday...well OK, but no bonus!
as for out of school hours- well, if you don't have kids,the holidays are 3* the price they are in term time!
Ah, there’s a bit I forgot to add - and I’ll add this with a rider that this applies to railway grades in general rather than necessarily driving grades. For some people all the previously mentioned wants go out the window when the undesirable shift is on overtime, suddenly the “childcare problem” miraculously vanishes, or the “much deserved rare family day out” is called off. To be fair this doesn’t apply to *everyone*, but it certainly applies to some.
I’m not sure it would be practicable to run coverage on the basis of paying different rates for different shifts though. That would cause problems too, qv some of the issues with weekend working where people might be happy to sign up for RDW in February, but less keen in August. The trains still need to run...