1. If you are "employed" then you are entitled to the minimum wage per hour THAT YOU ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND;
2. Tayside's "retainer" generally covers the minimum wage requirement in the winter - but sometimes it comes close to the edge. Based on a 35 hour week the M/W is £561 per month, a 40 hour week is £641/month, all before tax.
3. The next issue with Tayside is the "Working Time Directive". In the summer this is breached on a regular basis, 12/14 hour days with CFS cadets, and rest breaks, ie. lunch, are frowned on. The booking sheets don't even have a space for breaks so they are keeping their own damming evidence against themselves! Tayside does not appear to accept that an employer has a DUTY of care to all its staff all year round.
4. Mrs Frazer is very friendly but she is the spy in the camp. DO NOT TELL HER ANYTHING.
5. Many other flying clubs either knowingly ignore the minimum wage, Ci***air EGKB, or force their instructors to be, illegally, self-employed, therefore removing the employers need to pay the minimum wage.