"McDonald's seems to have their working practices in order by offering all staff rotas two weeks in advance and many employees welcome the flexibility," he said.
What on earth was the industry doing for all those years, wasting time organising staff rotas, planning coverage of major stories, managing content flows, placement and balance?
Headlines about abuse and neglect in care homes, tragically reduced home care packages and the so-called "flying visits", where staff rotas are so rammed carers only have time to drop in and tick off the bare minimum of tasks.
There was a huge buzz of animated conversation and the laughter was infectious, but I had conversations about how we ensure quality in home-based care, how to manage staff rotas and balance family needs in residential care, how to encourage practitioners to have challenging conversations and how we make sure we celebrate success in our service.
In a reply to Simon Burns, a health minister under the coalition, Gummer wrote: "We want to remove the opt-out from weekend, evening and night working in contracts for newly qualified hospital doctors, so that hospitals arrange their staff rotas evenly though the week and improve provision for junior doctors' training".
Made by Many consulted with Nando's head office and workers to identify their greatest needs, which were sharing staff rotas and company news.
London Midland said it would be bringing in new timetables and staff rotas from Sunday, which would "close the shortfall of drivers".
Other ways people like Paul get away with not paying the minimum wage, according to Citizens Advice, includes hiding staff rotas so staff cant prove how many hours they've worked, docking pay for no reason or to cover accommodation costs, or just not paying up at all.
It was not possible at the outset to ascertain how many midwives would be eligible to complete the questionnaire, as a number of new appointments and revisions to midwifery staff rotas had been introduced.
No other interventions with similar aims were ongoing at the time of the study, but parental responses could be subject to changes in staff rotas at the times of the questionnaires.
