Originally Posted by
TheFiddler
MAG are trumpeting just over £10 per hour for Security Officers - which includes the shift allowance for turning up at 2am, parking 2 miles away and getting bussed to work.
Meanwhile, Tesco...
Same pay, park outside, work normal hours and don't put up with the abuse from management and passengers. Pay rates and conditions are going to have to increase massively before MAG can properly staff itself..
I read on the BBC that MAG say half those appointed as security officers quit before their DfT checks were completed - and then had the cheek to blame this on DfT. Manchester, it's YOUR issue. You don't pay them enough, and quite possibly don't put them on proper full pay while in training. Today you have to make the job sufficiently attractive and worthwhile to keep employees - otherwise all the costs of training etc get wasted. Your HR team can't do the arrogant "I'm better than you lot" strutting over applicants they likely previously did.
You can't pay people bottom wages, for someone who likely would not afford their own car, and come to work on the bus - and then have shift hours where getting to/from work is then a confounded nuisance compared to elsewhere.