Sundays inside on a 35hr week, maximum day is 10hr 30mins. Spare movement I recall is 2hr 30mins (or possibly 2hr).
2h30 movement from spare
Bit of a general question but intrigued to know specifically for EMR too, how does overtime work in railways? Is it an hourly rate/daily rate? Only if work rd’s, or over specific hours? Is it pre planned or late notice cover or both? Thanks in advance
Generally folk work to a base roster, which averages out at no more than 35hrs/wk (or whatever the contracted hours are) over the number of weeks in the roster. Some weeks will be longer, some weeks will be shorter. You’ll get overtime on an hourly rate for anything over the base rostered hours each day, whether that’s because your booked job’s been extended (e.g. engineering work), you’re doing a longer job than booked, unplanned delays or late-notice alterations. Some companies don’t pay overtime for unplanned delays for, e.g., the first fifteen minutes over rostered hours. Rest day work’s obviously overtime too, paid according to the length of turn worked, sometimes at a premium depending on the company, and often with a minimum payment too (e.g. paid six hours minimum even if you only come in for a couple of hours’ work).
Does anyone know if the apprenticeship driver salary advertised is the training salary, the salary once qualified, or if the salary remains the same throughout training and working?
Also, what does Sundays ‘in’ mean? They are included as part of the 35 hour week rather than classed as overtime? My base rate as a signaller is less than the salary advertised but easily exceeds it by working Sundays/nights/the odd bit of overtime. Just trying to work out if I’d take a hit financially if I went for it. Thanks in advance.
Salary progression is detailed in the Twitter screenshots up near the top of the thread. Sundays ‘in’ does indeed mean that they’re part of the 35 hour week, so no ‘guaranteed’ overtime as in the signalling grade. That means that you have to have an extra rest day in the week to compensate for working a Sunday though, and I can’t imagine a world where the railway doesn’t rely on rest day work to some extent!
