No Day Off For Royal Wedding
Monday 7th February
2011
400 EAST
LANCASHIRE FLOORING PRODUCTS WORKERS TOLD ROYAL
WEDDING DAY IS "A
NORMAL WORKING
DAY"
This is "rather bah humbug
because the day has been declared a public holiday" says GMB
Officer as Interfloor follows another company to tell GMB members
in Somerset,
Yorkshire, Staffordshire and
Scotlandsame thing
Interfloor, based in Haslingden,
Rossendale, Lancashire, employing 400 workers manufacturing
flooring underlay products and accessories has told GMB members
that they must work on Royal Wedding day on April 29 without
'additional working premiums'.
Interfloor follow pre cast stone
company CPM Group, with GMB members in Somerset, Yorkshire,
Staffordshire and Scotland who told GMB last month that the Royal
Wedding would be a normal working day as well. (See release in
notes to Editors below)
An Interfloor notice to employees
says: "We will be treating this day as a normal working day.
Anyone who wishes to be absent on the day should request to take
the day from their holiday entitlement."
Alana Armstrong, GMB Regional Officer
said: "I think this is rather bah humbug because the day
has been declared a public holiday.
GMB would urge the
company to offer double pay or a day in lieu as a gesture of
goodwill, even if the contracts don't require it."
End
Contact: Alana
Armstrong, GMB Regional Officer 07740 80 40 44 or 01772 555879 or
GMB Press Office 07974 251 823 or 07821 289880
Notes to Editors
GMB press release of 20th January 2011
on pre cast company refusing time off for Royal Wedding
CPM GROUP LIMITED Precast
firm with workers in Somerset, Yorkshire, Staffordshire and
Scotland plan to work through Royal Wedding Day
CPM Group Managing Director, Mike
Stacey has announced to the workforce on that the Directors of CPM
Group have discussed this at great length and in view of the
current economic situation, coupled with the number of Statutory
Bank Holidays in April and May 2011, and the disruptive effect this
will cause to business, the decision has been taken that the
Company, will not be closed on 29 April 2011.
There will still be opportunity
for people to take a day from their holidays to enjoy the day if
they so wish, with their Line Managers approval, ensuring that the
business is unaffected.
CPM is a precast concrete business
and a market-leading manufacturer of concrete products with
extensive production facilities in Somerset, Staffordshire,
Yorkshire and Scotland. "Off-site" provides modern methods of
construction for many applications including modular retaining
walls, rainwater harvesting, greywater recycling, stormwater
attenuation and control, water treatment and manhole innovation See
Notes Editors for locations and contact details.
Rachelle Wilkins, GMB Organiser,
Midlands and East Coast Region, said;"GMB members consider
that this pathetic use of the current economic situation is nothing
more than a sham excuse! The Company are currently working
overtime and have recently employed agency staff due to an increase
in volume of work.
The real reason the
Company are trying to enforce this decision is because they have
been advised by an outside HR Advisory Service after they had
looked over the terms and conditions of employment that the Company
could refuse to apply this Special Bank Holiday".
This is a total and utter
abuse of the Working Time Directive and the Law surrounding Bank
Holidays.
I have spoken with Nick
Gainsford ( Director) and urged the Company to re-think their
somewhat uncharitable decision and afford GMB members the Special
Bank Holidayto
celebrate the Day. I told him that GMB members hope the decision
was not cast in stone."
End
Contact Rachelle Wilkins Organiser
07966 327 970 or landline 01482 218018
Notes to Editors
Head Office Sales and
Works
CPM Group Ltd, Head
Office Mells Road, Mells, Nr Frome
Somerset, BA11 3PD
Tel: 01179 812791 Fax: 01179 814511
ScotlandSales and
Works
CPM Group Ltd, 101 Main
Street, Newmains,
Wishaw,
Lanarkshire, ML2
9BG
Tel: 01698 386922 Fax: 01698 387167
Leek Sales and Works
CPM Group Ltd, Barnfields,
Leek,
Staffordshire, ST13
5QG
Tel: 01538 380500 Fax: 01538 380510
Pollington Works
CPM Group Ltd, Pollington,
Goole,
East Riding of Yorkshire, DN14
0DU
Tel: 01405 860591 Fax: 01405 863606
Technical Offices
CPM Group Ltd, CPM House,
Heath Mill Road,
Wombourne,
Wolverhampton, WV5
8AP
Tel: 01902 356220 Fax: 01902 356221