Free day!! (or at least it is for our employers)

It only comes once every four years, but when a leap year does come we get an extra day in the year. However if you are on an annual salary this extra day means devoting an extra 8 hours or so to your employer and for what… absolutely nothing! They will still pay you the same amount this year but gain an extra day of service from you. Unless of course you are a temp and paid by the hour, in this case for once it is your turn to get one over your permanent colleagues as you are being paid for working today and they are not.

If our employers were to decide to pay us for our extra hours today that would be the equivalant of a 0.4% payrise this year, although your salary would of course revert back to it’s original value next year. So come on employers… do the decent thing and pay your employees for their extra work!