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From: "Andrew Hobart"
Subject: Re: Staff Grade out-of-hours work and remuneration
> However compare the salary of a hypothetical SHO who worked 40 hours a
> week all between 7am and 7pm Monday to Friday (basic salary only) with
> the salary of an SHO who works 48 hours with at least 1/3 of these
> outside 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday (1.5 times basic salary). The
> additional 8 hours attract a 50 per cent increase in total pay
> equivalent to an "overtime rate" of 250 per cent.
> Of course this overtime rate incorporates within it the allowance for at
> last 16 of the 48 hours being antisocial.
Aren't you describing a 2A post, Andrew, in which case the SHO will attract
a salary 1.8 times greater than basic? This works out at a 400% hike in
hourly rate for the additional 8 hours worked, from a purely mathematical
viewpoint! Of course, as you rightly point out, they will typically be
working for at least 16 of those 48 hours "antisocially" and, by corollary,
32 hours "socially". So, assuming they get basic salary for those "social"
32 hours, then they will indeed actually receive 2.5 times their standard
salary for each of the additional 16 hours that they work; not bad going!
And you mustn't discount that they'll have 8 hours free during office hours,
which in many ways is just as pleasant - and often more useful - as having
similar time free out-of-hours.
Adrian Fogarty
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