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Hi, I'm trying to go a quick straw pole on what the interest is like to work for a local authority.

 

wages are between £30-£34k a year working a 37 hour week. Get the usual council benefits pension, sick pay, 31 days holiday + BH after 5 years.

 

If a position of this nature came about how many would apply?

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39 minutes ago, richgriff86 said:

Hi, I'm trying to go a quick straw pole on what the interest is like to work for a local authority.

 

wages are between £30-£34k a year working a 37 hour week. Get the usual council benefits pension, sick pay, 31 days holiday + BH after 5 years.

 

If a position of this nature came about how many would apply?

I think the main attraction for some would be there is very little graft.

 

I regularly see 2 or 3 Council tipper/chipper teams standing looking at a tree.

They mess around for a half day with a MEWP, not much achieved, then move on.

 

It's the usual roadworker situation of 6 men watching, 1 man working!

 

I'm sure someone here will tell me otherwise but that is certainly the case here.

 

I would speak to the LA regarding job opportunities, I bet they don't come up very often as no one leaves!

 

 

 

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I work for a LA and I would think long and hard about it, forever in a position of job cuts and no pay increase for years, Central Government cutting funding, Mon to Friday solid 8.00 to 4.00 and as for pensions and pay I will need to work until I'm 67 and will still be short on the Mortgage payments.

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Well, as they say, it depends.

If I had the opportunity right now (at 60) with most of my debt behind me, to finish off my working life with all those benefits, lack of pressure, guaranteed holidays etc.
I’m not saying I’d do it, but it doesn’t sound terrible.

 

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Agree Mick.

 

I did work for Greenwich Council about 20 years ago.  Last just over 3 months.

 

Couldn’t hack the lack of graft.  I was young and hungry and couldn’t get my head round it.  IME we could have done the same amount of work by 11 and had the rest of the day off.  I literally could have had 2 jobs.  Instead we left for site.  Setup everything and then stopped for breakfast.  Work for about and hour and then tear down the site to be back at the yard for 11 for an hour lunch.  Back out at 12, set up the site and work till 1345 then tear the site down, back at the yard for 1430 and then sort paperwork out and go home.

 

I couldn’t handle it.  I did get a good tan though that summer.

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15 minutes ago, David Humphries said:

I’d say it somewhat depends on the LA and what you do with that job opportunity. 

Having done plenty of London planes on street working as a subbie and  watching the employed tree workers on the same street amazed me as to how they even had jobs let alone got any work done....

 

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