The company I work for and have done for a number of years, so don't really want to name names incase they read here!
We've all been on price on Redrow sites. The prices are £10 an hour, 12 hours for every 80ft, 4 hours a loading bay, half hour a standard on a birdcage. So basically they've called us into a meeting and said to secure more Redrow they have to drop their price and means we'll have a price rise on our flat rate but after we've earned over our 8 hours a day we go onto a fall back rate, so we got put on £10.50 and £6.60 fallback rate with the £10.50 all the way through on Saturday.
We had the meeting on a Wednesday informing us of the pay cut and they said they'd work out the rates of what they could pay and came back to us on Thursday night with the new rate and fallback and it would start from the following Monday. When we got paid on Friday we had been paid at the new rates when it should have kicked in the week later so we've basically been docked before we even agreed to it. Also now Redrow have added loads of little extras to our work that we won't get paid for because it's in our designs. 12 transoms on a loading bay with 4 rakers, when for the last 5 years it's been half that. Kicker lifts in the birdcages, flappering all the inside boards.
Just after a bit of advice really is all this even legal because we haven't actually signed anything agreeing to this new pricing and if there's anyway of making this more beneficial for us making almost the same money, I know we can hold hours back and go in on the Saturday for an hour and book them in at full rate but if someone comes to site on a Friday afternoon and sees its been done were ******, thanks for any input.
We've all been on price on Redrow sites. The prices are £10 an hour, 12 hours for every 80ft, 4 hours a loading bay, half hour a standard on a birdcage. So basically they've called us into a meeting and said to secure more Redrow they have to drop their price and means we'll have a price rise on our flat rate but after we've earned over our 8 hours a day we go onto a fall back rate, so we got put on £10.50 and £6.60 fallback rate with the £10.50 all the way through on Saturday.
We had the meeting on a Wednesday informing us of the pay cut and they said they'd work out the rates of what they could pay and came back to us on Thursday night with the new rate and fallback and it would start from the following Monday. When we got paid on Friday we had been paid at the new rates when it should have kicked in the week later so we've basically been docked before we even agreed to it. Also now Redrow have added loads of little extras to our work that we won't get paid for because it's in our designs. 12 transoms on a loading bay with 4 rakers, when for the last 5 years it's been half that. Kicker lifts in the birdcages, flappering all the inside boards.
Just after a bit of advice really is all this even legal because we haven't actually signed anything agreeing to this new pricing and if there's anyway of making this more beneficial for us making almost the same money, I know we can hold hours back and go in on the Saturday for an hour and book them in at full rate but if someone comes to site on a Friday afternoon and sees its been done were ******, thanks for any input.