Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

[126th street]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(27/06/2013 09:01)CX54 DKD Wrote:  Those 2 rest days out of 7 are built into a drivers weekly duty compilation. They're rest days assuming that you're working 5 days, not assuming you've had 5 days off. Thus, if you want those two days off as well, considering they're already built into a normal working week, you should have to ask for a full week off and not just 5 days with the expectation your rest days will be slotted in around that.

I can't believe it's so difficult to understand, but obviously it is.

Let's look at it like this. A driver is rostered to work the following:

Mon: Work
Tue: Work
Wed: Rest day
Thu: Rest day
Fri: Work
Sat: Work
Sun: Work.

He will put five days' holiday in and thus is off on paid holiday Mon, Tue, Fri-Sun. Wed and Thu he would have been off anyway because those are his rest days. He is entitled to take them and the company cannot say otherwise. Hence for five days' holiday burnt he gets a week off.

Your comment about 'slotting rest days in' is irrelevant, and to be quite honest those who have not a scooby-do as to how the bus industry's use of rotas works would do best not to comment. A week's holiday is seven days off work - end of discussion.