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DIVING DEAL: RMT general secretary Bob Crow and regional organiser Stan
Herschel (centre) signs deal with Diving company representatives following the
settlement of the 44.7 per cent pay deal.
F
or a long time unscrupulous
employers have exploited a
loophole in the law which
allows them to include public
and bank holidays as part of the
statutory four week paid annual
leave entitlement.
This is now set to change.
From October 1 2007 statutory
annual leave entitlement will
increase to 4.8 weeks (24 days
for a five day week) and to 5.6
weeks (28 days for a five day
week) from April 1 2009.
As the annual leave year
starts at different times for
different groups of workers, the
new entitlements have been
worked out on a proportionate
basis.
This means that the benefit
of the additional leave is applied
on a pro-rata basis from October
2007 depending on the
proportion of your current
annual leave year that follows
this date.
This change only applies to
those employees that currently
have bank holidays as part of
their leave entitlement. You will
see from the ‘ready reckoner’
chart, that further increases are
then made incrementally up to
April 2009.
To work out precisely how
many days you are entitled to,
multiply the number of weeks
by the number of days you
usually work a week.
Example 1: In 2007/08 your
annual leave year starts on
February 1 and you work four
days a week. The calculation is
4.27 weeks x 4 days = 17.08
days
Example 2: In 2007/08 your
annual leave year starts on
April 1 and you work five days
a week. The calculation is 4.4
weeks x 5 days = 22 days.
Example 3: In 2008/09 your
annual leave year starts on June
1 and you work five days a
week. The calculation is 4.93
R
MT and OILC activists
continue to reach out to
offshore workers by distributing
joint union materials to the
hundreds of workers flying
offshore from heliports in
Aberdeen.
Organising unit co-ordinator
Alan Pottage said that activists
always got a positive response
from the workers.
“They are encouraged to see
the OILC and RMT working
together and feel that, at long
last, their voices will be heard,”
he said.
RMT's membership amongst
offshore workers has grown at a
steady rate and OILC's
membership will decide at their
annual conference this month
whether to proceed with the
Transfer of Engagements with
RMT.
Appendix A
Leave year
starts
2006/07
2007/08
2008/09
2009/10
1 November
4.07 weeks
4.8 weeks
5.27 weeks
5.6 weeks
1 December
4.13 weeks
4.8 weeks
5.33 weeks
5.6 weeks
2007
2008
2009
2010
1 January
4.2 weeks
4.8 weeks
5.4 weeks
5.6 weeks
2007/08
2008/09
2009/10
2010
1 February
4.27 weeks
4.8 weeks
5.47 weeks
5.6 weeks
1 March
4.33 weeks
4.8 weeks
5.53 weeks
5.6 weeks
1 April
4.4 weeks
4.8 weeks
5.6 weeks
5.6 weeks
1 May
4.47 weeks
4.87 weeks
5.6 weeks
5.6 weeks
1 June
4.53 weeks
4.93 weeks
5.6 weeks
5.6 weeks
1 July
4.6 weeks
5 weeks
5.6 weeks
5.6 weeks
1 August
4.67 weeks
5.07 weeks
5.6 weeks
5.6 weeks
1 September
4.73 weeks
5.13 weeks
5.6 weeks
5.6 weeks
1 October
4.8 weeks
5.2 weeks
5.6 weeks
5.6 weeks
ALL CHANGE FOR ANNUAL
LEAVE ENTITLEMENT
ORGANISING
AT HELIPORTS
Diving
Deal