"Sir Benjamin Nunn" wrote in message ...
"Brimstone" wrote in message
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Well, I find it insulting as I don't get time off because of the
extra hours I work, and I would imagine the millions of people
working for the many companies in many industries that don't leech of
public money, and don't have a corrupt union propping them up might
feel similarly about the situation.


Do you regularly work a 37.5 hour week but only get paid for 35?


I regularly work weeks of 40+ hours, and in my contract I specifically had
to sign an opt-out of the European Law on the maximum 48 hour week, and I
get paid a fixed salary based on a notional 37.5 hour week, with no overtime
or time off over and above that.

Ah! SO you _do_ enjoy being ****ed up the arse by your employers!

And compared to some people I know I have it pretty easy.

You must know a lot of very stupid people, then.

But very few companies functioning within the constraints of real world
economics could afford their staff the joyride that LU staff seem to benefit
from.

What? You mean - Shock! Horror! - people being compensated for the
hours they work above the ones they're actually paid for, within a
formal structured system?