I'm always incredulous about such a position, and the same view applies to youth workers who somehow believe that weekends are sacrosanct. Now the debate about weekend working has fired up again, with a range of statements from senior professionals and in political quarters asserting that youth workers should be doing more work on the weekends.
The counter-arguments then immediately kick in, concerning the nature of the working week, appropriate time off in lieu, and ensuring suitable staffing levels. Doug Nicholls, general secretary of the Community and Youth Workers' Union, who is never short of a crisp and telling phrase, notes (quite rightly) that employers have often expected "too much, from too few, for too little".
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