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Post by oops on Jul 31, 2015 7:45:46 GMT
Just a thought.
With the on set of the new living wage next april raising wages from £6.50 to £7.20, is it going to cause problems.
I have seen in some local papers that some small firms are going to close as a result, some small firms have anounced they will have to reduce peoples hours to compensate for the pay rises so the company can stay afloat.
just imagine our clubs reducing our hours and increasing the standby time.
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Post by mmmm on Aug 1, 2015 7:17:57 GMT
Yes it might but the CCC and the CC will both have to increase wages so it not possible for one club to gain an unfair advantage and pressure wages and hours for the other club.
With the CC info is in the public domain relating to hours/rates etc for each site so it will be easy to compare year on year changes.
with the economy on the up we should expect a good few years of increased income for the clubs so money should be available for wages.
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Post by marj&homer on Aug 1, 2015 13:10:12 GMT
yes this will be just like the last increase, which all leads to inflation this is good news as it it will push up interest rates, so rich oaps with savings can come to our sites more often and all rich semi rtd hsa/aw can get even richer . those of that age will remember normal rates of 12-15% which would make our spoilt zero percenters sweat a bit shame
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Post by diaspora on Aug 4, 2015 19:48:33 GMT
Just musing at just how simple the working class of this country are! Consider when the minimum wage was first introduced everyone said the country would go bankrupt, did it? Employers cry Wolf. Standby Time is illegal, two test cases last year and an appeal, know has become case law, the basis of all English Laws. See "Sleep-ins and the National Minimum Wage". secondly, the £112 allowance for the caravan; you cannot use tax free allowances to make up the minimum wage, it is either Breach of Contract and or "Unlawful Deduction of Wages". lastly those of you that have other interests, such as a row of houses you rent out, or the shop that the holidays site assistants mann for free, that HMRC don't know 'yet' just how much is being made by these managers, just a matter of time before the bubble bursts. But then they all have had a good run for their money, top down!!!!!!
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Post by Onthebeach on Aug 6, 2015 18:12:42 GMT
Some years ago an assistant couple for the CC challenged the Wardens about sharing the shop profit 50:50. Wardens refused so assts sent an all user email asking for any other assistants on the network who were not getting an equal share to consider getting legal advice & sharing the costs.
Outcome was Head Office stepped in & now it's part of the contract that all site staff get an equal share of shop profits unless any of them don't want anything to do with it from the start. If that's the case they have to sign a declaration so there's no comeback later down the line.
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Post by oldtimer on Aug 6, 2015 20:48:25 GMT
At our site (CC) the profits from all gas sales and the shop are shared equally, this is explained at the start of the season and the warden is quite proud of this system,it helps team moral and stops any ill-feeling.It also helps when you are knocked-up at 8pm for gas sales to know you are getting a share.
Ive worked for the CCC and this was not the case even though we staffed the shop at all hours.
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Post by I Love Belinda on Aug 6, 2015 21:01:40 GMT
I think one of the ways the clubs will go to offset any wage rise is to tamper with the contracted hours. Instead of a straight number of hours for the full season, they will reduce the hours in the off seasons and only do "full hours for the high seasons. they will also look at starting contracts later and finishing earlier. Leaving managers, the daft sods, to work longer periods at the start and finish of the season on their own. Keep a look out for single managers too. That way they will get two for the price of one. The other half will of course help out but at an assistants wage. Not much difference on the hourly rate of course, but when you add on the extra few hours a week managers get, responsibilty allowance of a couple of hundred a week and reduced expenses and imprest spending and there could be some decent savings over a season. To get some action on the "Standby Time" issue, we should do a work to policy action. It states that campers who have booked a pitch should arrive by 20.00. If they are going to be late they should contact the site to ask if the manager can arrange for them to be met. No where in the Club Policy Document does it say we should be pitching all comers until 23.00. This has just become "custom & Practice" but isn't actually a policy of the C&CC. You could probably argue that anyone arriving late and not ringing to let the site staff know is technically in breach of policy and be refused entry to the site!  As its the members, not the managers or directors that make the clubs' rules and policies, they would have no answer to it! You are not in breach of contract, or doing anything to be disciplined for as we are all contracted to carry out the policies of the club! |
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Post by yesbut on Aug 6, 2015 21:42:03 GMT
Sadly for any co-ordinated action on stand by hours you need a workforce which is willing,working in the same place,able to communicate freely between themselves and know each other exists. non of these conditions exist in the CCC.
Interestingly ( as regards a previous post about shop sales) the new Site Manager of the CC banned all staff from using the clubs inter-site email facility for staff to contact each other.....knowledge is power( or communication is power )
The present system of small sites with a high turn around of staff with regular yearly injections of fresh 1st years willing to do as they are told is designed to allow managers to get away with murder!!
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Post by Diaspora on Aug 24, 2015 19:42:13 GMT
Well guys you said it all, knowledge is power, as is ' divide and conquer', the massive recruitment process the CCC undergoes each season is to replace knowledgeable newbies that walk. It's a continuable stacking process. This newbie's gone floppie, send me a new one!!! RSM's that don't go on rota's, neither to managers, the system is rotten top down - who's fault is it, your bloody own co's you haven't got the balls to stand up for yourselves!!!
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Post by walking to theCC on Aug 25, 2015 12:48:14 GMT
and guess which way these knowledgeable newbies walk? you got it in 1..the CC. At least 4 couples left the CCC for the CC this spring.
the CC use the CCC as a filter and recruitment proxy.....laughing up there collective caravan pulling shirt sleeves
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