Seen a job but it said 48hr week annualised hours. I haven’t got a clue what this means, any help please.
Only a guess but, are they averaging your hours over a period of time, as in work more one week less another.
Or is it a pay related thing? Paid for 48hrs per week but the reality is something else?
That wasn’t helpful was it, sorry I’m just bored!!
Company I work for use annualised hours,
I am “contracted” to work a certain amount of hours per year (can’t think of the exact figure at the moment, but it works out to 50 hours a week.)
I get paid the same every month irrespective of how many hours are worked.
e.g,
If I only work 48 hrs one week, I am 2 hrs “down” on my target.
Work 52 hrs-------- 2hrs “up”
etc, etc,
Couple of times a year, any extra hours are paid out, or you can keep them in the bank, or use them for extra holidays.
Works for me 
As all these schemes are, it’s a way of smoke screening pay so that drivers end up out of pocket. If they didn’t, the companies wouldn’t bother doing it.
Avoid, if at all possible would be my take on it.
So if i work 60 hours a week i still get paid the same as 48 hours but work less and still get paid the same and any hours over 48 get kept in lieu, sounds ok in theory. Can’t help but think that i may be working more than 48 hours most of the time, without getting the benefit of working fewer hours.
It also said work could involve days,nights,weekend work or some nights away.
Think it’s a spelling mistake should probably read ‘analised’ which means they plan to screw you for 48 hours,normal transport industry terminology
Truckulent:
As all these schemes are, it’s a way of smoke screening pay so that drivers end up out of pocket. If they didn’t, the companies wouldn’t bother doing it.Avoid, if at all possible would be my take on it.
So a salary is a smoke screen is it?
Armagedon:
Think it’s a spelling mistake should probably read ‘analised’ which means they plan to screw you for 48 hours,normal transport industry terminology
It’s what Redboxer says, not a bad way to get paid you always no what your getting paid. Company I worked for never paid extra for over hours but gave time off
The way I see it you’ll be salaried based on 48 hours a week. I know several people on annualised hours and their main bug bear is no overtime. 1 week you may do 60 hours, 12 over your set 48. Rather than get paid any extra for it you’ll just do less another week so maybe 36 the week after therefore balancing out your 48
Usually it means (for example) if your holiday entitlement was 4 weeks plus bank holidays x 5 you will be expected to work a total of 2256 hours a year (47 weeks x 48) so when it is busy you will do maybe 8 x 55 hour weeks and maybe when quiet 8 x 41 hours and the rest at 48 hours or they may require you to do an additional shift on a weekend to make up hours. Basically it is like salaried without ever getting an early (paid) shout.
I’m on 48.6 a week or 9.6 a day if we do less we still get paid the 9.6 over 9.6 it’s over time at time and 1.5 over time is paid 3 times a year. Bank holis are single time two days in leu,double time one day in leu or triple time no day in leu i no it sounds odd but this an annualised hours contract you can also take time off in lue of overtime if you have hours in the bank.
But I guess it all depends on who work for the firm I work for are very good some will just try to rip you off
There are lots of differant kinds of these contracts the one we were on at tesco was differant again the thing you have to remember is if it’s a bank holiday and there’s work you work
Again you have to make sure it’s right for you before you take it on
I am on a 44 hour contract and love it, i have never worked 44 hours in a week usually more, on the plus side i get about 10 weeks off a year including hoiday, happy days as far as i am concerned.
I’m quite happy being paid an hourly rate for the hours worked - not sure I would be prepared to work for anything different! If i work 60hrs, i want to be paid for 60hrs. That way, there is no chance of discrepancies when you highlight your doing a lot more than actually agreed!
Apparently the one that they had at Tesco Harlow, some blokes were on 60k a year!
virgin trains drivers are on annualized hours they get paid a set amount each month for there hours over a 12 month period after they have worked all there set hours they are given the choice sit at home do nowt and still get paid or work and get a lump sum at the end of the 12 months for the "extra " hours. know of one driver who had works ALL his contracted hours by mid January he then picked which days he was available to come in and also what shifts he did until the first of April for which he received £11,000. his hours for the next 12 months were expanded after negotiation but he still received £55,000 a year as his salary so can work in your favor .
have along hard look at it first
Armagedon:
Think it’s a spelling mistake should probably read ‘analised’ which means they plan to screw you for 48 hours,normal transport industry terminology
That’s about it. You work 60 March to September and get paid for 50. Then October to February you work 40 and get paid for 50. Ok if you want time off but you lose out if you’re used to overtime.
When I started ASDA we were on annaulised.
For the right salary i’d go back to it tomorrow. Bang the hours in and have every 5th week off! Yes please!
Truckulent:
As all these schemes are, it’s a way of smoke screening pay so that drivers end up out of pocket.
+1
NewLad:
Apparently the one that they had at Tesco Harlow, some blokes were on 60k a year!
Yeah so what happened & where are they now…■■?
Smiffys trucking:
I’m quite happy being paid an hourly rate for the hours worked
Best way to be…
Latique:
can work in your favor .
In top end jobs like that which are practically dead mans shoes. Yes it can & the rewards are sweet, after all a train driver is harder to replace than an HGV driver…
Derf:
Truckulent:
As all these schemes are, it’s a way of smoke screening pay so that drivers end up out of pocket. If they didn’t, the companies wouldn’t bother doing it.Avoid, if at all possible would be my take on it.
So a salary is a smoke screen is it?
Definitely, if the job is anything but fixed hours. Driving is about as far from fixed as it gets.
It’ll be more usual to go over than under. Over a year you’ll end up working more hours than you’re paid for. Your actual pay is clear. But you can only work out what you’re getting by looking at the hourly rate.
In the vast majority of driving jobs, hourly pay is far more likely to be better. 