Minimum Wage
Are you instructors aware that the minimum eage applicable to ourselves if we are availiable to work but due to adverse or dubious weather we have deemed prudent to stay on the ground that, averaging out the number of hours that we are on duty compared to the hours we actually fly, we are entitled to the national minimum wage.
For example I flew eight hours and 45 mins in the month of December full time yet duty time was 48 hours hanging around guessing what the weather was going to do. Therefore I am entitled to 48 x £3.70 as a wage. I am not entitled to a wage if I deem as an instructor that it is unwise to come in that day. I am entitled to a wage if the weather is borderline. Does anyone have any comments or instances where enlightened clubs understand the new european employment rules.
My understanding is that most schools are ignorant
ps I work for TWO schools in in a calander week. HELP