Hundreds of North Sea oil workers have lost the right to paid holidays on top of their shift patterns.
After five years of legal wrangling, an Employment Tribunal in Aberdeen last year ruled that 300 drilling contractors and catering staff had the right to two weeks’ paid holidays.
However their employers appealed against the ruling, and Lady Smith on Monday issued her decision to uphold the employers’ appeal. The employers argued that paid leave, or holidays, can and should be taken during existing field breaks.
We all picked this industry at a time when you didn’t get paid holidays so why would we all suddenly expect them.
1. We get paid well enough without putting further strain on our companies, what would happen is the companies would not give such a good pay rise every year and still come out the winners
2. We all get around half the year off anyway
If they dont like it there are plenty jobs on the building sites (NOT)
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