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The minimum wage rules are quite clear. The rules the club have fallen afoul of are less obvious I feel, and quite easy to accidentally make a mistake in regards too. All that happened is they paid someone too much in expenses. Because they did this it reclassified them as an employee, rather...

Many people come direct from work (in say London) and then go home somewhere else (say Lewes). Hell I work at Falmer but live in town, so I'll be walking over the road to get to the stadium on Friday and getting a bus into town. Two different methods for an entirely reasonable reason.

I take his point really. He's not even saying he's been successful, he's just saying that the things other managers are praised for, he (and other English managers) are already doing, but no one cares. He's right really, it's all about perception of managers, which likely comes from the media...

It may well be that they don't want to give details as they're not 100% sure where drop off locations will be. Given how many extra buses they're putting on I'm sure it'll be a bit of a squeeze, and the extras will fit in where space is available.

The union is no longer striking, it's not their fault that Southern are unwilling to run trains to Falmer on safety grounds.

They paid one too much, accidentally, which changed their category of employment. I don't think that's that shameful really?

I'm sorry, the employee was effected greatly because they were paid too much? I mean I suppose they were effected, but not in the negative way you're heavily implying.

I sort of wonder what happens if everyone turns up at Brighton station and demands to go to Falmer? The club said it's something like 12,000 people coming via train I think. Of course some come from the East, but say 8,000 come from Brighton. It'd be lovely to see Southern's response, but I...

At least we're unchanged for September and October.

He's still the republican candidate, so he's going to pick up support there anyway. Clinton is widely disliked and would likely be losing against any other candidate (maybe not Cruz), and it's mostly a binary system people voting against her will go for Trump (maybe Johnson, but probably not)...

Tonight is the strike timetable, which is even more restrictive than the emergency timetable. If you look at next week, which I believe is still emergency timetable, National Rail currently shows it as three trains an hour till 19:50, then two train an hour till 23:30. That's running from...

I think it "only" runs till 2020, but I'm not positive. EDIT: Scrap that, it's September 2021. So almost exactly 5 years.

Both sides seem to be poor about providing info though. Southern talk about increased sickness, but don't provide figures etc... It's almost as if they're both presenting arguments that are fronts for a different dispute.

Both the FT and the BBC (which are the top hits from Google) just call it "a 2008 agreement". That's all the info I have. The articles mostly talk about the ongoing Southern dispute to pad it out a bit.

The disagreement seems to be about Eurostar not honouring a 2008 agreement. So the contract hasn't changed, but Eurostar are (according to the RMT) not living up to their end.

This piece in the FT says they'll be striking on the East Coast as well. While I don't know the ins and outs of the RMT, is it wise to have so many fires going at once? Or are they trying to overwhelm train operators/DfT by a continual rolling action that shifts between operators?

It's a reasonably good approximation I'd say. Different texture, but still good.

I was going to say Halloumi. Deep fried Halloumi is very nice too.

That's a quite remarkable idiocy.

It amazes me that they still claim this but refuse to publish any figures. If they had a case they'd just have to say "Here's how many conductors we had available on this day, here are the figures from last year" and the RMT would be instantly cast in an incredibly bad light if it were true. The...