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Bank Holiday working fairness

Ruth

Hello 

Looking for ideas on this one. On bank holidays employees are paid triple time, obviously with such a monetary incentive everyone wants to work them. We currently put names in a hat of people who are interested allocate that way. Staff are now not happy with this system  - Can anyone suggest a fair way of bank holiday allocation given that everyone wants to work them? 

Thanks 

Ruth 

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  • in reply to Keith
    Thanks - We have but everything suggested seems to have a level of unfairness to it and now the unions have got involved and want a fair system putting in place so I was just wondering what other organisations do
  • in reply to Ruth
    All our overtime is voluntary is very much on business need. Teams have to request it then the supervisor and workshop manager assess the need and decide how much to authorise (if any). We do pay extra for Bank holidays and this follows the same process but in all honesty it's extremely rare that bank holiday overtime is needed or even approved. If the unions are now involved then ask them for their suggestions. Pulling names out of hat seems pretty fair to me, but if they think otherwise then i would be "engaging with them" to see if they can come up with anything better.
  • in reply to Ruth
    Well I think what ever you come up with needs their buy in so they need to be involved in its selection

    One solution might be to adapt your random draw in that once you have been drawn out of the hat once you cant go back into the draw for the next X number of draws to give everyone else a chance.

    Fundamentally I might also look lounger term at why I was paying such an enhanced premium for BH working when clearly lots of people are willing to do it but thats a whole different debate.