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UK: Female police win right to bonus for working night shifts despite only working days
Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2006-10-22 01:09
Story here.
Apparently these women are entitled to "overtime" pay because "their childcare commitments stop them from working anti-social hours" Now that the so-called wage gap has been refuted, women are again looking for special privileges. Excerpt:
"Its judgement means West Midlands police must now pay thousands of pounds in special allowances to single mother Susan Blackburn and her colleague, mother of two Victoria Manley, both of whom work part-time."
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Madness, absolute
Madness, absolute madness...
This will mean that no matter what job you do, how hard you work or what unsociable hours you accept, you can NEVER be paid more than a woman who chooses to work in a safer job doing less stressful/damaging/dangerous work over half the time and at her convenience.
A woman CHOOSES to have a child, then CHOOSES to work as well as raise the child. She CHOOSES a safe job over part-time hours that suit her child raising - and then sues the employer because males who choose to work at night and see less of their family get a few pounds more. Which of course is fair, because men don't get to choose, right?
Makes you sick. My kids have more understanding of fairness than that. And, where's the end? Miners who get danger pay - surely the women who choose to work in the administration block because they aren't big or strong enough (or brave enough) to work down the mine should also get the same danger bonuses. And women in the forces who shuffle papers, spend their time training up then leave to have babies should get the same long-service leave payments that their male colleagues do when they choose to stay on and serve their country for years. In fact, anywhere and anytime a male gets ANY MONEY AT ALL, a woman is entitled to the same, no matter what she hasn't done to deserve it...
Man, this steams me up....
I see absolutely no way to justify that ruling
The bonus paid for working the night shift at any job is precicely because of the sacrafices it requires to do so. You give up alot to work it. You give up you ability to get you banking done at a bank, you give up alot of you social life, you give up your ability to see your friends and family as often as you'd like, you give up watching your favorite TV show, you miss your kids plays/practices/PTA meetings ect... you give up many many things to work the late shift.
That is precicely the reason the late shift is NOT a desirable shift and requires a premium pay level to attract people to work it. If you pay bonuses to people who are "unable" (through choices they made) for the reason that they are unable to work the late shift then you will lose the ability to attract people to work that shift at all.
People who work late night shifts at any job are performing a valuable service that not everyone is able or willing to do. They deserve the increased pay that goes with performing a service that is valuable to all people.
Why would a buisness want to reward it's least valuable employees with the same bonuses paid to its most valuable ones?
sarcasm
Hey, I have an idea! My place of employment is not open late at night, but I AM able to work at that time so I should be paid a bonus because my employer is not allowing me to work all the hours I am available to work. I think I'll sue them! They are discriminating against me for the sole reason that it would cost them money and they would not make a single cent to be operational at 3am and that's just not fair to me!
/sarcasm