better off in the public sector

[Freamon]

And your assuming you won't get tuped out to some private sector outsourcing company which is what has happened where i am and thats a whole new ball game, trying to get ex public sector to provide a private sector service back to the public sector, don't make me laugh

Plus TUPE legislation is about to change so that those transferred to a private sector company don't get to keep all of their benefits. Just in time for privatisation of the NHS...

[The Spartan]

28 days which include all bank holidays

Companies House have 29 days standard not including bank holidays

[MrRobin]

TfL give about 30 days holiday IIRC. (Bank holidays not included)

[hugebrain]

The worst thing is we already work more hours for the public sector than public sector workers!

e.g A teacher working 9 months 9-4 with an hour for lunch < 11 months working 9 - 6 * 60% Tax.

[Sysman]

Tis all true, it will rot your brain in no time, i have never worked with so much dead wood and people cruising to pension time, and yes you can get 30 days holiday if you survive for about 25 years

Yep. My father got 6 weeks by the end.

He also used to fall asleep in his armchair every workday evening. The office politics got to him.

[d000hg]

Yep, but given the economic circumstances it's pretty clear that there have to be savings; it's not fair, but it's necessary.

No argument there... but when a bank says the same thing and issues a cut we don't post on CUK about how it's a shame, but we'll pull together

e.g A teacher working 9 months 9-4 with an hour for lunch < 11 months working 9 - 6 * 60% Tax.

Generally getting to school before the children is advisable. And these "mandatory 1 hour lunch breaks" are often a joke, the same way leaving your 9-5 job at 5 on the dot is a bad idea.

[SimonMac]

The worst thing is we already work more hours for the public sector than public sector workers!

e.g A teacher working 9 months 9-4 with an hour for lunch < 11 months working 9 - 6 * 60% Tax.

I know several teachers who will show in great detail how they do a lot more than 9-4 for 9 months of the year

[Sysman]

Plus TUPE legislation is about to change so that those transferred to a private sector company don't get to keep all of their benefits. Just in time for privatisation of the NHS...

I caught a whiiff of this back in about 1995 when teachers and health care folks were being asked to go and work for private companies and they started asking questions about registering as self-employed etc.

This was probably what inspired all that IR35 stuff about Friday to Monday contractors. It probably inspired IR35 itself.

Be careful what you wish for?

[The Spartan]

The worst thing is we already work more hours for the public sector than public sector workers!

e.g A teacher working 9 months 9-4 with an hour for lunch < 11 months working 9 - 6 * 60% Tax.

I don't have a problem with certain parts of the public sector, like those that have to pay a large amount of their salary into their pension. But when you know that the majority only pay 1.5-3% at most and the type of pension that they get it's ridiculous

[TestMangler]

it seems that to get the equivalent of Public Sector pension you would need to put 50% of your private sector pay into a pension fund and even then it would be subject to the vagaries of the stock market unlike the guaranteed PS inflation linked one

so am considering going for a Public Sector job

£45k job is really a £67.5k real job plus 8 weeks paid holiday a year plus paid sick days plus flexi time plus no pressure to deliver plus live at home

You lost your arguement at that point. Unless you're getting that per quarter, why bother making the switch ???