Pay during the Olympics

Boots888

To be honest I can't understand what you want.

If they are self employed they've had a least 5 years to contemplate other work for those 2 weeks.

I'm sure lots of maintenance work will be carried out north of london in that time to take advantage of the influx of people to the SE in that period.

You've 99 days left to figure it out!!!

maplegirl2011

but unfortunatley those areas are covered by the usual teams. they have only just found out, so haven't had ages to prepare. i didn't start this thread, only chipped in. he is looking for other work for that period, but as everyone knows its hard to get a job at the moment.

Boots888

I don't know, you didn't start the thread but can't understand why you've been caught short on this one. Apart from the Queen's Jubilee, it's only the biggest event to hit the UK in years!!

Surely you, or road workers in general, could have seen this coming and prepared for it.

dseventy

My business is affected by the olympics.

The games were awarded to London in July 2005. Since then I (as a business owner have been planning), the links I have built up are

The Official Olympics Website: www.london2012.com

Olympics Transport Plan: www.london2012.com/making-it-happen/transport/transport-plan.php

UK resilience website: www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ukresilience

Schedule of events: www.london2012.com/about-us/nocs-and-npcs/index.php

Travel advice and maps: www.london2012.com/get-involved/business-network/travel-advice-for-business/what-are-the-impacts-going-to-be/index.php

Details of the nations and the regions group: www.london2012.com/about-us/the-people-delivering-the-games/the-nations-and-regions-group/index.php

And we have a plan. Some people are taking it as leave, some working from home, some are skeleton staff.

You have had 7 years to plan for this?!?

D70

Boots888

Agree with the above, Dseventy!

It almost sounds unreal people haven't prepared for this and they're now panicking.

I'm astonished.

fogartyblue.

Boots888 wrote: »

speak to your union rep. If you're not a member, or don't have one, I guess the politicians have succeeded in getting rid of them.

About time in my opinion. It isn't right that a union can cause misery to the rest of the UK for their own selfish reasons.

After the miners strike and the joke of a car industry that we had, unions should have been banned altogether.

fogartyblue.

Boots888 wrote: »

Agree with the above, Dseventy!

It almost sounds unreal people haven't prepared for this and they're now panicking.

I'm astonished.

About the same level of apathy that hit the South East this week when they shut down one of the TV transmitters.

They have been advertising it for years - yet they had 1,000's of irrate callers wanting to know what has happened to their TV signal.

The British public!!!!

You could tell them that they have to plan for anything 10 years hence, but you would still get the dozy lot wanting to know about it the day before!!

Boots888

fogartyblue. wrote: »

About the same level of apathy that hit the South East this week when they shut down one of the TV transmitters.

They have been advertising it for years - yet they had 1,000's of irrate callers wanting to know what has happened to their TV signal.

The British public!!!!

You could tell them that they have to plan for anything 10 years hence, but you would still get the dozy lot wanting to know about it the day before!!

:rotfl:I read the other day that the last switch off affected 12,000 people. What??

Then again, they could have been vulnerable people who didn't realise the switch was happening, and hopefully weren't too bothered about it. I spent a few years staring at the TV not realising it was not switched on!:)

kingfisherblue

If someone is self employed, then surely there is no guarantee of work in any given week or by any given company that usually or frequently employs them?

Notmyrealname

maplegirl2011 wrote: »

but thats the point, they are self employed when they work on the roads, so they dont get any holiday pay. it will be 2 weeks minimum unpaid.

Aww bless. As a self employed truck driver I had lots of periods where there was no work.

I lived off the money I'd earned.

If they've spent all the money of every invoice they've been paid and not put any aside to cover periods where there is no work or when they go on holiday then that is their tough luck. If they have no money for these two weeks then it is because of their own making.

And they're self employed. If they wanted to be paid then they should have gone on PAYE.

You can't have your cake and eat it. Either you're self employed taking advantage of reducing your tax but with the downside that no work means no pay or you go on PAYE so when situations like this happen you still get paid.

I have absolutely ZERO sympathy with them.