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Download STABLE Talk STABLE NARS Newsletter - December 2018 talk Pg2 Pg3 Pg9 George’s Column Goodwood Racecourse Report NARS Head Office: The Racing Centre, Fred Archer Way, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 8NT T: 01638 663411 E: [email protected] W: www.naors.co.uk GEORGE’S COLUMN WINNER WINNER! On the 10th of December all staff working in the rule. For everyone else this is a huge step licenced racing yards will be employed on a forward. I am aware that many staff will be saying 40 hour working week. This is a historic step to me that their employer will not pay them forward for racing staff who have traditionally overtime, to anyone with that concern I would worked excessive hours in the yard without like to assure you this is a binding agreement ever receiving overtime payments. I am aware between the NTF and NARS, it is not optional, it of only one yard in the Country which operates is a binding agreement and a condition of their a clocking in, clocking out system which licence. If your employer refuses to pay you the guarantees the staff payment for any hours overtime, contact NARS and we will follow this worked in excess of their normal hours. The new up for you. We successfully claim back holiday agreement brokered by NARS with the NTF will pay and unpaid or incorrect racing expenses and finally see staff getting paid at time plus one half wages, so this is nothing new to NARS. There will for any hours above the 40 they are obliged to be a basic overtime sheet on our website which complete. Now, normally when you say a 40-hour you can download, the same overtime sheet will working week most people think of a 9 to 5 day be on the NTFs website and every racing office job, that will not be the case in racing yards as we will be able to access both websites. In addition, all know! The 40-hour working week, spread over the racing offices should have a hard copy of 7 days, can be worked anyway the employer and overtime sheets in their offices. There are two employee agree. So, it may be that some yards exceptions to the new agreement, the first is decide to carry on as normal, but the employer that you will still be required to work 5 hours will have to pay for any overtime worked. For on a Saturday (if you have already completed example, if your normal morning was 6 hours and 40 hours this will be overtime)and the second you go back in the evening for 2 more hours you is that this covers time worked in the yard, the will have worked 40 hours by Friday evening. If racing allowance of £10 tax free and £7.83 per you go in on the Saturday morning for another hour outside of your normal hours will remain the 6 hours you will have to be paid at time plus same. You will now be paid for working a 40 hour one half for those 6 hours. Alternatively, your week as opposed to 85 over 2 weeks, you may employer may shorten your working week days see your basic wage go down, but your net pay or ask you to take, for example, a Wednesday will go up as you will now be getting paid at time off. Either way, you will now have the equivalent plus one half for all hours worked over 40. of 2 clear days off per week or you will get paid I understand this will take some time for both significantly more for working the hours many of employers and employees to get used to and for you are already doing. There are yards that do any queries please either call the office on 01638 work in or around 40 hours in any given week, 663411 or email either [email protected] or me but these tend to be the exception and not at [email protected] 2 E: [email protected] A GLORIOUS GOODWOOD Historically racing staff who have attended Goodwood have done so with an air of despondency and disappointment, particularly whilst working the Glorious week. This is largely due to the state of the facilities provided for staff staying overnight. It’s been well documented that accommodation is not to a standard that any working professional should have to endure whilst away at work. Following meetings between NARS and Goodwood representatives significant progress has been made. There are plans to continue making improvements to accommodation going forward this however isn’t a straightforward task. Ed Arkell the new clerk of the course since the start of 2018, is under no illusions as to the size of the task ahead to achieve acceptable accommodation standards. The building itself is Grade 1 listed, thus getting permission to even knock a wall down must go through a laborious process and many channels seeking approval from planning consent, meeting building and structural requirements etc. I can confirm that surveyors have inspected the site and that plans are ongoing, but with the size of the task it will take a serious amount of time and expense as well serious headaches for those close to the project no doubt. The team at Goodwood therefore made many changes for the Glorious meeting in 2018, with free food for all racing staff including box drivers. The food was of good quality and excellent variety and there was extremely positive feedback on the chef (Spike). The total amount of free meals given throughout the week was approximately 1,100 this is something Goodwood have never done before we thank them for valuing racing staff in this way. The stable and hostel managers (Alan and Penny) do a great job and nothing is ever too much trouble for them and we commend them for this. With a total number of 441 horses in the stable yard, and 229 stabled overnight, it’s a lot of work to get the stables turned around, cleaned out and disinfected. On three of the evenings entertainment was provided with a quiz night in which the winning team received £100 (free entry), a hog roast was put on with other BBQ options and a fish curry to accommodate any other dietary options and then the traditional Friday last night karaoke night with Scobie. The lads I spoke to were delighted this year that improvements were in place and they reported that it was great to get everyone together with activities, the food was amazing, showers and communal areas were very clean so the only downside was the shared rooms. Thank you Goodwood and thanks for reading Pete McCulloch W: www.naors.co.uk 3 LICENCING OF RACING STAFF Talks are at an early stage to introduce asystem millions of pounds of thoroughbred racehorses. for the licencing of racing staff in the UK. The first thing Ishould do is point out that this has Another step in the right direction is for us to nothing to do with Brexit! have alicence to work in the racing industry, in the same way jockeys and trainers do. This will Staff up and down the Country are always require alot of work, but Ibelieve it is the right asking me why the job they do is not considered thing to do. The work will be led by the BHA as aprofessional occupation. Well, the easy in consultation with NARS. Although nothing answer is that it is considered as aprofessional has been decided yet, it looks certain to come occupation, at least by us and in most cases the in either mid 2019 or at the latest early 2020, trainers we work for. The problem with getting depending on computer hardware and possible your occupation listed as aprofession is that unforeseen problems. the government will only consider occupations as professional if they require academic qualifi- It is my aim to have alicence that will look like a cations, such as aDoctor, Accountant, Vet etc. credit card and contain racing industry data on it This does not mean we are not professionals at such as who you are working for, when you joined work but simply that our choice of work does not the industry and any courses you have been on, require us to undertake academic studies. like the yard managers course or the assistant trainers course, among others, at either the BRS However, there are steps we can take to make or NRC. our jobs become more easily recognised as a professional one. One step we have already taken Iwill keep you informed but in order to keep up to change the name of NASS to NARS, so we are with any changes that take place before the next not called stable staff but racing staff, boo hoo, newsletter comes out in late March it is worth you might say but the term stable staff always checking out our website, google NAORS, or made it sound like we are just kids playing around download the App by again googling the App. with ponies instead of professionals working with TAX AN EMAIL RECEIVED AT Iknow you do champion the clothing allowance but again everyone thinks I’m nuts when I OUR OFFICE AND WORTH mention it, make them gather the receipts and SHARING. assist with claiming it. For me the bigger issue is with tax codes and staff just accepting what the It has been brought to my attention, numerous trainers pay roll person/ HMRC do.
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