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February 12, 2008
MacSyrup
Three revelations and it is hard to know which are the worst
- Some UK library staff who work on Saturdays are paid 'time and a half' for doing so because working on a Saturday is deemed to be 'unsocial' (for most non public-sector work this is not the case)
- In Scotland that practice is to stop
- Most professional librarians work in offices on weekdays and not at library counters on Saturdays
So it will be the poor lowly paid 'library assistants' who suffer and the office jobs that continue unfettered.
And the public will continue to pay heavily for staff who are not on the library opening rotas.
This news is brought to us by an old aged pensioner in Fife. (and his beautiful wife)
Posted by Perkins at February 12, 2008 2:52 PM
Comments
Terms and conditions for library staff in public libraries are the same as those for other workers within the council. It is not UK library staff who are paid 'time and a half' for Saturdays (and indeed Sundays), but council employees across the board. I am a profesional librarian, I work alternate Saturdays, and I do not receive any enhanced pay since the practice was done away with under the Single Status agreement. As it was in most councils.
Posted by: Claudia Tyson at February 12, 2008 4:21 PM