No, employment law is barely adequate, and there are some sectors which are over expoloited.
Electrical and civil engineers for two. It is unfortunate that the strong unions, in well protected sectors abuse their status.

Also, Bob Crow should be played in a film by Ray Winstone, bonking Boris Johnson on the nogin with a sock of pool balls, and screaming "I'm the daddy now."
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 16:00, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

as far as I'm aware as a civil engineer we don't have a union
if we do, none of the engineers I know belong to it, and it does nothing.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 16:02, Reply)

Do you feel over exploited though?
Could you do with surf breaks instead of tea breaks?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 16:04, Reply)

I don't, and I doubt many of friends in the industry would say they were either
my mrs as a structural engineer is, but that's because of people being on mat leave (so increased work load) and the company as a whole has had a load of redundancies and a 10% pay cut. If they were to go on strike then the company would crumble, more than it is anyway due to lack of construction projects.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 16:12, Reply)

Well put.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 16:27, Reply)

thanks.
the state of the industry and how it affects me and my mrs has been on my mind a lot.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 16:37, Reply)