But Committed sundays are already in the T's & C's at many TOC's and we still have sunday resourcing issues , one of the big issues in this dispute and with this offer is that it apears the DFT really do not have any operational understanding .
The only way committed sundays would work to provide coverage is if there was also an adaqeute number of Spare sundays in the links to cover the drivers/guards who are off sick , off the job , on annual leave as per below . But then you end up paying some people sundays to be unutilized spare in some instances .
In answer to the question when they are committed overtime you arent paid sick pay or anything else for them and you cannot book them off with your annual leave either . Where I work we do not have to do a booked sunday at the end of a week of Booked leave though or inbetween our 2 week booked leave in summer .
I understand totally how it works at the moment.
The proposals which a poster posted last week as a PDF document in this forum which was called offer to the RMT, stated that Sundays are extra on the working week but must be worked unless cover is found.
If someone at present is unavailable for a Sunday and reverts to not available for admin purposes, presumably it would become either sick, leave or unauthorised absence if these Sundays absolutely became part of a mandatory shift pattern. There must be some change proposed otherwise it wouldn't have been stated in the offer surely.
40 hours!!!! Certainly not. It would have to be within 35 if incorporated into the working week.
This is where the pure confusion lies. Go back to this thread for posts made Monday last week, where someone posted the actual offer on the forum as a PDF.
Edit: The poster posted it on page 81 of this thread and attached it about half way down.
It said Sunday would be an extra day but must be worked unless cover is found. That would not fall within what we presume to be a basic working week. Mick lynch himself also said on question time its proposed the basic working week increases by 5 hours to 40 hours.
So the question here is, is it reasonable to assume that if it is desired the basic week increases to 40 hours as Mick Lynch said, with the Sunday extra but absolutely having to be worked on top? That seems a lot of hours compared to now.