Movers demand longer weekends
In the latest bulletin of Movers on the Go the feature article described movers' demands for longer weekends. At the moment most movers in the US and in Europe have a long weekend stretching from Friday through Sunday. However, this doesn't seem long enough for the federation of movers which is now pushing for a four day long weekend. This, on the side of movers, sounds glorious, who wouldn't like such long weekends, however on the other hand the employers claim this could be disastrous. True, movers could always set up a skeleton or emergency team for the long weekends in case of special orders, however, this causes a lot of trouble. According to employers of movers, a great deal of work is carried out on the weekends, and this is quite normal. Movers are required over the weekend to carry out a lot of relocating and moving home goods, simply because this is convenient for clients who are not working. Movers say, ok, our skeleton teams will do this special work. However, the
employers claim that these skeleton teams of movers would demand special high rates of extra pay as they are not working on regular hours. Thus the costs for employers would climb considerably.