legal requirement for employers to pay extra for antisocial hours to NMW employees

anamenottaken

Not a legal requirement of course, but we pay an extra 15% for anti-social hours (roughly 21:45 to 06:45).

Tygermoth

glentoran99 wrote: »

Where do children go for daytime when sleeping after nightshift?

School.

You come home from your night shift do breakfast and pre school routine - take them in to school. Come home go to bed. if you are lucky OH picks up after school, starts dinner you can get some extra sleep.

Or you do both drop off and pick up - and nap on the sofa while they do homework before evening routine starts. Hand off to the OH for the night.

Holidays - school club or friends on rotation to share care though if you are canny you make you rotation fall so your off days cover a chunk of the holiday.

I used to 8 on 8 off or 12 on 12 off and it was a brilliant shift pattern (even without a shift enhancement) as it fitted in with home life perfectly. No rush hour traffic, quiet shifts and long periods off. Getting appointments was a breeze as you could do them on your off days.

Detroit

TyreLever wrote: »

That 9-5 mon to friday stuff is a real nuisance and is still the case in some places. Try getting your car repaired, or seeing a doctor on a sunday evening. I currently work nights and weekends so its not an issue for me. I do however get paid extra for nightshifts, altho before this job, some other employer offered me work on nights for the bare minimum wage. I told them strait I would only do that for reasonable shift allowance. The fact is too many people are willing to work for peanuts, which then has a knock on effect of lowering wages for everyone else.

Can we substitute 'willing to work for peanuts' for 'forced to work for peanuts if they want to eat and keep a roof over their head' please?

There are a number of places to lay the blame for poor pay and conditions, people who are themselves victims of these issues should not be one of them.