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The health secretary wants junior doctors – all doctors below the level of consultant – to accept working on Saturdays as part of a normal working week, to help bring about the seven-day NHS the government has pledged by 2020.
Hunt indicated that he was prepared to reconsider his plan to reclassify working on Saturdays between 7am and 10pm as part of the normal working week for which doctors would only be paid at the standard rate.
One of the key issues is pay for working on Saturdays.
Make sure that you recognize the early accomplishments, because it's very easy to work for eight months straight and wonder why you're working on Saturdays and Sundays.
Doctors working on Saturdays and later into the evenings on weekdays will no longer be considered to be working anti-social hours under the Government's proposals.
And often, they don't only get paid with the original salary when overtime for working on Saturdays or Sundays, when you should pay double salary to them.
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When the 10-hour day became the norm (still a long working week when you consider people worked on Saturdays too), demands for a further reduction were common.
My father had an office in one of the buildings over here, and he would take us to work on Saturdays.
She works on Saturdays and Sundays.
The receptionist replied, "The doctor does not work on Saturdays".
There was some sarcastic chatter among terminals: "Work on Saturdays?
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