Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Sunday, 24 February 2013
Nat’s Noisy Try
Apparently Nat scored a try today, he was playing at number 8, and deb was told afterward that when he got passed the ball apparently he let out a bloodcurdling cry as he ran at the other team and they parted like the Red Sea and let him straight through. Go Nat the Tank!!!
Monday, 18 February 2013
Monday 18 Feb
Just about to finish four days of work (fin 7am today) and then it’s time to plan to see a little more comedy this week. I managed to make it to shows last week on Sunday (all day at the Funhouse above the Kayal restaurant on Grandby Street and then on Monday I went and saw two acts at the Looking Glass pub Braunstone Gate.
I haven’t written blogs about either of those days as yet so I’ll have to get that done sometime soon too. Anyway, not a lot happened last four days, Nat went off to frosty camp with Scouts on Friday afternoon, when I was in bed, and returned yesterday afternoon also when I was in bed. Apparently he pulled up a tree that two 17year olds couldn’t manage (F**ked if I know either … think they were tidying the grounds) and was full of his own strength. He and Brandon will be taking over larger paper rounds on Monday morning as the two councillors have finally screwed up once too often and Dyllis the lady who runs the paper shop has wound up one of their rounds and split it between Nat and Brandon who will now be earning £20pw rather than £15. Given that we did do 4 rounds last week Nat picked up, or would have if he’s been home, £60 in paper round wages. Deb took £10 for petrol and Hannah got £10 for doing the Saturday papers but even so not bad for a before school job. I’m hoping the Thurnby Lodge couple continue to screw up as I quite fancy a paper round myself when we get back from
Hannah went skating at Enderby leisure centre on Friday night with some friends and while she enjoyed it she was quite miffed that her friends were better at it than she was. She can’t seem to process the fact that this is not because she’s rubbish but rather that they have all been going there for a number of weeks and she hasn’t.
Di, in Orlando, has had both her kids staying the weekend as 18 Feb will be the 18th anniversary of her adopting them; talking of Americans Jeff Jebanaise has just reappeared on Twitter and WhatsApp after a long absence and it seems he’s just become a Daddy again.
When we started work this evening we had a meeting with Sara, da boss, who outlined how things were progressing in the business (not sorted our holiday yet!!!) and somehow after making a suggestion I seem to have found myself involved in seeing whether or not it would be possible for us to access the New Installations data base out of hours so that we could raise inquiries regarding the installation of new heating systems.
Finished the Tom Clancy Novel I was reading, Against All Enemies (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Against-All-Enemies-Tom-Clancy/dp/0241957168/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1361156137&sr=8-4) and have now jumped back into Pandora’s Star which I started rereading months ago but haven’t looked at for a while. The only problem with peter f Hamilton books is that I’m left desperately wanting rejuvenation therapy and Unisphere implants … sod Monkey Butlers where’s my E-Butler??? Oh well enough for now there are books (book) to read and comedy performances to chose to attend.
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Saturday, 16 February 2013
draf
Sunday 20 Jan
No Walk Monty
Still Snowing
Rude Nat
Reading Hannah
Monday 21 Jan
No School
Work
Not Busy as expected
Planning how to get Nokia 808 and mifi
Motorola Razr I on T-mob then sell that and N8 for a 808
http://www.uk-mobile-broadband-deals.com/mobile-wifi.php?kw=Bing-mifi
http://www.mobilephonesdirect.co.uk/Basket/index.aspx
Tuesday 22 Jan. 13
Took Monty for walk around park and managed to take loads of sunrise photos
Home for Jeremy Kyle, cleared path of ice and made toast
Got more PARKER books for kindle and now almost got all 24.
Arrived work and there were 80+ calls in queue althought this had dropped to 30 by the time we logged on. Still it was busy as bu88er until nearly 1AM.
Spoke to Ash who enjoyed the Facebook message with pic of bricktop’s sister from JK show
Just had WA from Di asking for Eng cos her T8ts are cold
Wednesday 23 Jan
Thursday 24 Jan
Fri 25
Sat 26
Sun 27
Monday 28
Hannah Taxi
Council
Enderby shopping
Argument
Tuesday
Argue Di
Work
Wednesday 30 Jan
Thursday 31 Jan. 13
Hannah unwell
Off school
No walk monty
Sunday Feb 10
Comedy day at Kayal
Monday
The Looking Glass
2 free comedy performances
Lo lu
3 men and another man
Tuesday
Snow
Wed
New car
Thurs
Works
Fri
New car
Nat Freeze Camp
Bye to D
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Friday, 15 February 2013
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Saturday, 9 February 2013
FW: FIRST DRAFT: HOLIDAY TIME OFF IN LIEU CASE; FEEDBACK APPRECIATED
From: Jones, Meyrick
Sent: 09 February 2013 02:34
To: Williams, Leon; Barry, Julie; Grudgings, Gail; Randle, Duran; Mistry, Hasmukh; Meany, Sharon; Mohammed, Abdull; Maharaj, Sashi; Hall, Jennifer; Hartman, Nicky; Weaver, Julie
Subject: FIRST DRAFT: HOLIDAY TIME OFF IN LIEU CASE; FEEDBACK APPRECIATED
The Perennial 10.58 Hours TOIL Question
1. This issue has nothing to do with money.
- The over night staff claim 10.58 hours TOIL in order to make sure that when this deferred holiday time is claimed back the amounts of time on either side of the holiday ledger balance.
- When an Overnight Team worker takes a day’s annual leave they have to use up 10.58 hours of their holiday entitlement to do so; whereas an In-day worker, booking off the same day, has to use up only 7 holiday hours in order to do the same.
- Each person has taken a single day’s leave but because the night worker works a 10.58 hour day and the day work works a 7 hour day they have each had to enter a different number of holiday hours to book the same day off*
- The above situation is of no real concern EXCEPT in regard to claiming for statutory holidays where, EITHER the holiday falls at the weekend (e.g. Xmas Day/Boxing Day/ New Year’s Day) where everyone is affected OR where someone is;
- not working a standard Monday to Friday 37 hour shift pattern meaning that a Monday could be BOTH a normal work day or an official rest day dependant upon the shift pattern they are working when a statutory holiday occurs.
And
b. Their working day exceeds the 7 hour norm.
- Where someone works a normal 7 hour day and they work a Bank Holiday they (i) claim back the 7 hours as TOIL and (ii) claim 7 hours overtime pay, in addition to their normal pay, to compensate them for ACTUALLY working the Bank Holiday. This is how double time and Time Off in Lieu Works
- Where someone works a normal 7 hour day and they do not work the actual Bank Holiday but the Bank Holiday coincides with their official rest day they claim 7 hours TOIL so that they do not lose the additional statutory holiday simply because it falls on their rest day (it is because of this that employees get a days holiday on Monday 27 December and Tuesday 28 December if Xmas Day falls on a Saturday or a Sunday). This is How Time Off in Lieu Works … when the holiday is not actually worked but would otherwise be lost because it coincides with a pre-existing rest day were they not able to claw back the day as TOIL.
- Then later, when the employee subsequently takes the statutory holiday on another day, they fill in a holiday request form using the 7 hours of TOIL they claimed which has been added to their existing holiday balance. Fairly straight forward and in essence a zero sum game.
- The situation is however made more complicated when the employee does not work a standard 7 hour shift. In order for this equivalence to be maintained they must claim TOIL of the total hours they worked or would have worked (if they had worked the statutory holiday) not the standard 7 hours. They have to do this because when they later want to take that day off they have to fill in a holiday request that requires that they enter the actual hours that they won’t be working.
- When someone on the night shift books a holiday they give up 10.58 hours of their holiday entitlement to do so not 7 hours.
- If they have only been able to claim 7 hours toil then this means there will be a discrepancy of 3.58 hours which they would have to take from their normal annual leave entitlement.
- In other words the zero sum game is not maintained and the employee loses 3.58 hours of their annual leave entitlement. They have been CREDITED 7 hours but DEBITED 10.58.
- Assume that there are 8 statutory holidays during the year and that only 7 hours TOIL may be claimed for each then the discrepancy becomes apparent. Total Toil = 56 hours
- Someone working a 7 hour shift claims 56/7 or 8 days holiday back later.
- Someone working a 10.58 hour shift claims 56/10.58 or 5.29 days holiday back later.
- They have lost 2.71 days holiday
- THE REASON 10.58 TOIL HOURS ARE CLAIMED IS NOT ABOUT MONEY IT IS ABOUT ENSURING THAT EMPLOYEES DO NOT LOSE OUT WHEN THEY TAKE THE
* If annual leave was allocated/calculated in whole days this would not be an issue but then there would no doubt be an equivalent problem when someone wanted to book off a part day)
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