Production Issues with M240?

[Guest tanks]

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Germany: 10 yrs ago 35 h per week, today avg. 38 h/wk with trend to 40 and more (looking to fulltimejob)

 

I have no clue how they get to twentysomething

 

Uwe

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It is the average of all sectors. Also, if you have 30 days vacation a year, and lets say another 10 days of national holidays that is 8 work weeks out of 52 that employee is not working, lowering the average. For example a 35 hour work week averages to be 29.6 hours a week for the year. That also assumes zero sick leave. In a lot of union shops sick leave is taken whether needed or not.

 

Also, reading that article I linked it seems that more and more people are working part time. As a matter of fact, German government passed a law allowing employers to reduce the workweek rather than lay off employees.

[jaapv]

That is a bit confused. The law you mention is a part-redundancy arrangement and has nothing to do with working hours. Or are you going to average the zero working hours of redundant people in?

 

Union shops are unknown over here. Sick leave is when workers are sick and must be certified by an independent doctor. The sick person is still employed legally and his wage is must be paid. So he is still employed full-time.

 

It is also quite weird to calculate a normal working week by lumping full-time employees with part-time ones. The working week in both Germany and the Netherlands is 38 hours.

There are quite a few, mostly female, part-time workers. That does not change the working week.

 

Why factor holidays in? Even if you are on holiday you are still employed, so your working week is still the same, even if you are basking on the beach.If you start calculating like that you must count overtime as well, and there're not even statistics for overtime....

And what about (early)retirement? Does that bring down the working hours as well?

 

Uwe is right. There is a tendency to more working hours.

[Guest tanks]

Obviously no one read the article. Here is the explanations of the statistics.

These are the 10 countries where people work the least:

 

1) Germany

 

Average annual hours per person: 1,330

Average working hours per week: 25.6

Average wage per hour: $35.33 (7th highest)

2011 unemployment rate: 6 percent

Every year since 2007, Germans had the fewest hours worked on average, with a low of 1,296 in 2009. One reason this number was so low is that in 2011 14.7 percent of all employees were temporary workers, while 22.1 percent only worked part-time, both above OECD averages. Those in permanent, full-time positions also had significant time for themselves, as only 5.14 percent of Germans work more than 50 hours a week, less than half the 10.86 percent of Americans who worked that much in 2011. The average German had 15.31 hours a day to devote to leisure, one of the highest figures among OECD countries. In 2009, the German government introduced a program that allowed companies to cut work weeks for employees, as opposed to firing them, in exchange for the government’s pledge to cover remaining wages.

 

2) Netherlands

 

Average annual hours per person: 1,336

Average working hours per week: 25.7

Average wage per hour: $42.67 (4th highest)

2011 unemployment: 4.4 percent

Workers in the Netherlands enjoy low levels of unemployment, high incomes and one of the smallest proportion of employees working 50 or more hours a week -- at only 0.7 percent. GDP per capita is also third highest among the countries we reviewed. In the OECD report, the Netherlands had the highest reported proportion of part-time workers in 2011 at 37.2 percent.

 

Just to clarify further, I am talking about the actual hours worked, not the official work week or when you get paid while being off from work. So, if you are sitting at a beach on your 30 day vacation, yes you are getting paid, but not working and producing something or generating revenue for your company.

[South Bird]

The delay is getting frustrating. I ordered in October 2012 and have no idea at all when or if I will get a camera. More information on delivery schedules and timelines would be a professional response by Leica to the slow deliveries to date. The unanticipated demand explanation appears suspect. If true, why not supply the information on how the demand for the M has totally outstripped the demand for the M9, if that is the case?? The delay would be okay with explanation and information.

[digitalfx]

I ordered in October 2012

 

Unfortunately in Leica terms, you ordered late. most ordered in September or earlier.

 

Dr. Andreas Kaufman, owner of Leica stated in a recent interview that the current wait list is 1 year. But cameras have been shipping quite frequently lately. Have you asked your dealer where you are in line? Have you tried calling several smaller dealers?

 

Several members of this forum have located cameras by simply calling around and/or getting on a shorter wait list. If you are #50 on a list, your in for a long wait.

[South Bird]

I don't know where I am on the list. I asked for information on ETA before a trip I had scheduled and did not receive a response. Obviously the trip came and went with no M. I'm now planning a trip in October and it would be nice to get one before that. I will follow your suggestion and call around and step my efforts up a notch or two. Thanks.

[crspych]

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New M240 Silver/Chrome available in the Classified adds from Uk Dealer.

[Luke_Miller]

I don't know where I am on the list. I asked for information on ETA before a trip I had scheduled and did not receive a response. Obviously the trip came and went with no M. I'm now planning a trip in October and it would be nice to get one before that. I will follow your suggestion and call around and step my efforts up a notch or two. Thanks.

 

The California Leica dealer I buy from (Popflash) has had new M240s (both black and chrome) listed as in stock this week. A black paint M is currently listed at suggested retail price.