From Stall Pusher:
For those of you who have been bullied into working for free to enhance Willie Walsh's future pay reward package, you will lose your holiday pay entitlement for the period!!!!
Two days will be deducted if you opted to work for a month for free!!!
SP, you're wrong, fundamentally wrong. Read your own post again, carefully - "working for free" and
unpaid leave are not the same thing! Mr Bunker tried to put you right with this:
SP, it's a legal requirement to pro-rate annual leave for anyone taking unpaid leave as to not do so would disadvantage contracted part-timers.
However, PC767 joined you in your fundamental error by similarly posting:
To make matters worse those who have opted to work for free are to lose 2 days annual leave!
Wrong again - you are both confusing
unpaid leave and unpaid work! They are not interchangeable terms here!
Leave is usuallly accrued according to the number of days you work in a year. If you take unpaid leave, you get less annual leave, because you have worked less, and therefore haven't earned the pro-rated leave-paid days. To illustrate - if the paid leave wasn't pro-rated in some form then someone taking unpaid leave, and plenty of it, could end up getting more paid leave days than someone on a part-time contract, but both of them having 'worked' the same number of days in a year! Not fair on the part-timer, and perhaps not legal either.
The devil is in the detail - but that has never been BASSA'a strong point.
