Helvellyn
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I would be getting paid extra! If my rostered diagram is amended, then I get paid the extra I work. This is no different to during engineering works where I can find my original diagram amended, and if it's extended - which my contract allows - then I get paid that extra. If it gets shorterned then I still get paid my original hours! Win-win from my point of view.Maybe I am being a bit dim, but if they are being asked to work more hours during the games, then why shouldn't they be paid extra?
I do agree that the olympic bonuses that have been talked about are a bit of a joke in some of the cases (where the staff will just be doing their normal job anyway), but in cases where staff will have to work longer hours, then it is only fair that they get paid for that extra time.
With the Olympic I understand some last trains have been retimed later, so those diagrams will be amended during the Olympics. There might be some special turns for extra services, but they'll either be picked up by Guys on a spare turn, or I guess the company will be looking for volunteers to work a free day.
I can't see it's any different to Royal Ascot next week, where extra trains will be run, or the hampton Court Flower Show in two weeks where extra trains are also run. As some other posteres have said, I thought part of the 4.75% pay deal we got, back-dated to last October, included any payment for the Olympics. Nobody has yet been able to tell me how the company has gone and breached the pay deal, or our working conditions, during the Olympics, so I can't quite work out what this dispute is supposed to be about.