Irish Rail personnel management (Split from Dublin Bus strike thread)

markpb

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Or they can plain not give them their leave as is the case today and it costs the company nothing at all.

They must account for the unused annual leave each year which will affect their P&L and ultimately their profit. Of course, the amount they're accruing in annual leave is probably a drop in the ocean compared to their total loss so maybe they don't care.

dowlingm

mickydoomsux:

are clerical and your lot represented by the same union?
if clerical aren't doing booking office duties, what are they technically supposed to be doing?

mickydoomsux

dowlingm wrote: »

mickydoomsux:

are clerical and your lot represented by the same union?
if clerical aren't doing booking office duties, what are they technically supposed to be doing?

Some of them are in the same unions as us and some are in the TSSA. At our location they do the bank lodgments, wages and end of period accounting.

None of this stuff takes much time at all so i don't know how the rest of the day is filled out.

Conradd

Traveling on Cork-Dublin trains you can see how hard working IE employees.
Just few announcements, couple of strolls, the rest of time sitting in premier class carriage with tea and newspaper or book. Only staff working on the train are rail gourmet underpaid workers, they have terrible working conditions. Very annoying to read that someone have such nice conditions to work plus a lot of perks.

dowlingm

mickydoomsux - the reason I raised that issue is that presumably any attempt by your union to have the clericals pull more weight will be resisted by the other union, making any attempt to come to a rational division of labour difficult.