Wouldn't that result in a lot of staff sitting idle when sickness cover isn't required? Would you need to employ seasonal staff to cover sickness / holiday periods?
Any organisation will have a certain level of absences due to various forms of leave: holiday, sickness, maternity, jury duty, reservists, ... Or maybe other duties such as training.
The northbound sleeper calls at Inverkeithing at 04.57. I've used it once, I was the only passenger alighting. The train stopped short and I had to jump off on to the platform ramp the steward apologised but said it was unusual to call there. I had to walk to Rosyth shipyard as the taxis weren't up yet. I'd suggest for all the Fyfe stations you are much better off getting the lowlander to Edinburgh and a connecting service.
Absolutely. In normal circumstances it's a win win for everyone. More earnings opportunities for staff, lower costs for TOCs in not needing to employ extra staff and in theory at least it keeps the cost of tickets down for passengers.
FTFY, (although this is almost certainly not the case on the CS).
Not necessarily. It's a matter of how much overtime you're depending on. Almost all employees appreciate being able to pick up an extra few hours here and there. What doesn't work well is when they're expected to work extra hours all the time. Especially if the enhanced pay rate isn't particularly high.
They should merge back into ScotRail. They don’t run services 7 days a week either.
Caledonian Sleeper do have some grades of staff working on all seven days.
I doubt it.
Crickey. I tried ringing two branches to see if there was life !. Got the BT message saying I had dialed a dudd number.
As long as minimum rest periods/maximum working hours are complied with, it is fine.
There is one small clue on the website (if your really tech savvy) and that is the statement saying copyright 2015!!
We're required to work upto an hour a day if required. It's compulsory but usually paid at time and a half. As it's been needed for every day for the past fortnight they've now said they'll pay it at double time as a further thank you to us. But certainly employers can tell you to work when they want, there's not a lot you can do to stop it, it's just nice we get an enhanced rate. But there's a world of difference in us needing to do an hour a day to finish the job & needing to work our days off to keep the job going! In fact, management don't really like people working their days off at all. Railways rely on it.
It’s very unusual for any of the crew on the Fort William route to behave like that - they’re normally a very helpful and laid-back bunch. I think that staff member needs to be retrained as his attitude is bang out of order - to be challenging someone for being exempt from wearing a mask is unacceptable. Definitely take this up with CS.
Yes, I agree, I’ve done the FTW route several times before and always been impressed with the staff attitudes. Perhaps this bloke is just having a bad day, no way of knowing, but I have fed back to CS on Twitter (who were very prompt) & will give them further details in the morning via email when I have a consistent signal.
Looking at booking engines, it remains not possible to buy a ticket for day travel on the seated portions.
The reduced capacity was not an issue on Monday night!
