max man days for reserves

babybundy

should the cap on the amount of man days for the rdf but mainly the nsr be removed

Alkers

I would think so but IIRC the cap is due to EU legislation that if you work more than 42 days a year you would be considered full time?

testicle

Simona1986 wrote:

I would think so but IIRC the cap is due to EU legislation that if you work more than 42 days a year you would be considered full time?

Bullsh1t. That's what we are told, but no one has yet found any legislation to state this.

babybundy

no if you work more then they have to set up a pension fund and a few other bits and we are lucky to get paid at all

testicle

babybundy wrote:

no if you work more then they have to set up a pension fund and a few other bits and we are lucky to get paid at all

Again, bullsh1t. Find me the relevant legislation. I'll be waiting, it does not exist.

OS119

babybundy wrote:

no if you work more then they have to set up a pension fund and a few other bits and we are lucky to get paid at all

sounds a bit fishy to me...

in the UK the TA has no pension provision despite both compulsory mobilisation and voluntary Full Time Reserve Service (a way for TA soldiers to join a regular Army unit for a year, either at home or abroad, to plug holes in the regular army). the BG managed to persuade the courts that despite the two above examples the TA soldiers were 'temporary workers'. which went down like a sh1t sandwich as you can imagine.

if the BG can get EU legislation to say what it wants i don't see why the IG can't. unless of course the current situation is one the IG does actually want....

babybundy

is a pension fund manditory in england

Judt

One of our biggest costs in the defence budget (compared to say, the US, proportionally) is paying everyone. So legislation or no I'd point back towards the bean counters in the department - which makes sense, as it costs more than five grand to pay a section on the ground for a week (let alone other costs). Multiply that by a few thousand souls, add a bit for rank and you have to either increase the defence budget, or cut something from the PDF who will (at the end of the day) be the chaps going off to do the fun stuff for real somewhere. Real politik and all that.

Alkers

I was always told it was legislation anyway. If this is not the case then I think the cap should be extended for the NSR in particular, I don't know what the situation in the Army RDF is, do people often use up all their man-days?

babybundy

as i said earlier the nsr max should be raised if we cant recruit enough for the navey then bring uo the ranks with the reserves

testicle

There's plenty in the Naval Service. Infact I think it may be over strength.