Members in AAU at Warbreck will have seen their Christmas/ New Year arrangements imposed as:
- A daily 25% annual and flexi leave allowance to be applied for the period 23 December up to and including 31 December 2013;
- The 25% annual and flexi leave allowance can be increased to 33% (across the same period of time), if all OET performance metrics are rated green across all Units on 30 November 2013. In addition to the OET Metrics, International Claims Weeks on Hand must be less than 5;
- ………………. after the Christmas period in Pensions, annual and flexi allowances will be reduced to 10% on 2 and 3 January;
- The percentages above apply to members of staff available to work on the relevant dates (e.g. they do not include Part Time and Part Year absences);
We believe that an agreed level of 30% of staff in the office over the Festive period would be acceptable and that the staff covering should be volunteers under the previously agreed sense of the word.
We believe that there is an underlying lack of staffing when compared to the workloads and a pressure to meet targets regardless of the impact on the work life balance of the staff.
Many areas of the Branch have experienced massive job cuts. The cuts impact on members directly in terms of being made surplus or indirectly by having insufficient staff to cope with the workloads.
