In response to Keith Lyall's response to my letter (Give and ye shall receive, The longest day, letters.computing.co.uk), all I can add is that, of course, staff are perfectly entitled to refuse
to work beyond their contracted hours.

In turn, they must recognise that I am entitled to grade them accordingly and to employ someone else
who is more flexible to do the work - probably in Chennai, Bangalore or Mumbai, for example.

We work in a global market and cannot revert to the working behaviour that made British Leyland, for
example, the company that it is today.

Philip Lewis