BALIX
Is the 3am start the actual start time of a shift on the roster, or do these people get paid from 10pm?
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Yes and no, in that order.
I'll rephrase the question.
What time do those starting at 3am start getting their hours credited from.
nats
A whole scenario painted of ATCO's working practices by somebody earwigging into 'canteen chit chat'!!!!
No. based on a lot of years in the organisation at a lot of different locations.
The overheard conversation was an illustration of what goes on. Nothing more or less.
svoigt
There are however issues with the skills that one must have to be a controller which the general populace just don't have...
Two issues.
Firstly, that argument applies to many skilled jobs.
Secondly, it's not relevant when discussing about whether people should be allowed to cheat on their working hours. UK aviation suffers lot's of delays because of ATCO shortages. If some are not working the full amount of time they are being paid for, and this is regular and planned, it is simply unjustifiable.
The UK has significant delays at the moment because of controller shortages. The sooner these surplus staff are redeployed to areas where shortages do exist, the sooner they will validate and help ease the situation.