Banked Hours & Flexible Working
Principles of Banked Hours
In operations that require assured continuity of staffing and where overtime is an inappropriate means of delivering assurance, the system of Banked Hours has evolved. This course has about 4-hours of films
- Calculating Banked Hours
- What Happens in Practise when using Banked Hours
- Ad-hoc Workloads with Banked Hours
- Fairness and Banked Hours
- Uses for Banked Hours
- Flexible Shifts
- Training with Banked Hours
- Stepping up with Banked Hours
- Skills Matrix and Banked Hours
- Absence Cover using Banked Hours
- Cover Shifts and Banked Hours
- Work-life Balance and Banked Hours
- Benefits of Banked Hours
- Terms of Employment and Banked Hours
- Volunteering and Banked Hours
- Extending Shifts using Banked Hours
- Different Length Shifts and Banked Hours
- Multiple Approaches to Covering for Absences
- Sending Employees Home with Banked Hours
- Job and Knock with Banked Hours
- Rules for Fairness when Working Extra Hours
- Long Term Sick and Banked Hours
- The Danger of Forming a Ring
- Abuses of Banked Hours
- 4on-4off Example with Banked Hours
- Equalising Hours with Banked Hours
- Exampled of Shift Swaps with Banked Hours
- 2nd Example of Shift Swapping with Banked Hours
- Example of Carry Over of Banked Hours
- Example of 232 with Banked Hours
- Exampled of Banked Hours with 8-hour shifts
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