M&S Employment rules

Cliecost

Cliecost wrote: »

• If you take leave from work for bereavement this will count towards your absence and will effect your eligibility for a pay rise at the end of the year

This one seems the harshest.

Poppy9

Andy_L wrote: »

Who are these 20% of staff who are getting (up to) a 1/3rd pay cut? I'm surprised I haven't heard it mentioned

It's specific to my LA and if you read the local paper you would have heard. I do know it's happened at other LA too but as each authority has introduced their own scheme individually since 2004 it only makes local news.

Job evaluation

Just from googling "losers"

Lancashire

Carmarthenshire

Birmingham

Poppy9

GlosMark wrote: »

Glad I don't work where you worked.In the last 2 and a half years I've had 3 close family deaths (2 parents, 1 spouse). We get 5 days full pay as a matter of policy. Any more is discretionary.

I get bereavement leave upto 5 days plus day of funeral for parent, spouse, sibling or child.

That is the original terms I was employed on over 30 years ago but then added it was changed to "close relative" and people were taking it grandparents, in laws etc. and had also realised the was the policy was worded you could take additional paid special leave. Obviously there were people who took as much as possible and some people seemed to be responsible for organising a lot of relatives funerals - which was a criteria for accessing the paid leave.

Due to this it's now strictly the relatives named. I think it's quite generous as I would expect to take annual leave as I have 6 weeks leave and I always keep 1 week for emergencies.

When my mother was taken ill suddenly and was terminal with weeks to live I applied for special unpaid leave for the weeks she had left to look after her at home. I was told the HR panel didn't meet for 6 weeks so I couldn't have the unpaid leave until after panel had met. I didn't have 6 weeks to wait so my boss told me to go see GP and go sick after I had exhausted my annual leave.

Cliecost

Poppy9 wrote: »

When my mother was taken ill suddenly and was terminal with weeks to live I applied for special unpaid leave for the weeks she had left to look after her at home. I was told the HR panel didn't meet for 6 weeks so I couldn't have the unpaid leave until after panel had met. I didn't have 6 weeks to wait so my boss told me to go see GP and go sick after I had exhausted my annual leave.

Are you making this out to be a good employee/employer relationship?

Poppy9

Cliecost wrote: »

Are you making this out to be a good employee/employer relationship?

This was 26 years ago when rules were rules but line managers had the confidence to exercise common sense in genuinely difficult situations. I was young and it wouldn't have dawned on me to go sick.

It was the only way I could help care for my mother at home and keep my job. My manager didn't want to lose me and I think in the intervening years I've more than made up for the 2 weeks sick leave I took at this time.

steady__eddie

I am relieved that I am approaching the end of my working life but things are looking fairly bleak imo for people entering the labour market.
My daughter is an agency worker on a zero hours contract and is working for a government agency. She graduated a year back and decided to enrol on a further course which involved attendance one Sunday a month at uni for a further 3 years. Prior to enrolment she sought her employers permission and this was granted verbally. Now this has been withdrawn and reluctantly she is going to have to resign. She is sponsoring herself at uni at a cost of a few thousand pounds and obviously does not wish to forego this for the immediate gratification of a pathetic weekly wage.
The moral I presume is get things in writing.