Anotherthing: You should have noticed the little red fella sitting above my post! You can guess that there was a little devilment in there too!!
But another £10 or 15k !! That is more than my daughter gets for a 50 hour week looking after a lot of ATCO's children at a local nursery!!
Thanks for the clarification Area52. So what does the AAVA work out to be per hour then? £65? Has there ever been a case of 'if I go sick you can get an AAVA for covering me and it is my turn next week'? The budget for AAVA's at Swanwick is reported to be the equivalent of 50 average ATCO's salary for a year (30 top of scale). This is nearly double what is being spent on ATCO Towers (bedrooms). An opportunity for inappropriate behaviour to proliferate if ever I saw one.
Are there discussions going on to introduce a shift pattern that properly distributes the Ops rooms staff to meet traffic levels? More during the day fewer at night? That would reduce the need for AAVA's surely? Or should this be the subject of a new thread?
