Making the news today....

[Big J]

1 minute ago, woodwizzard said:

The common sense of it all summed up in one picture,

 

I can't disagree with that. 

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, Khriss said:

Contrasting this .... idiots .

 

Warning over Brighton New Year's Eve 'freedom' party

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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A protest group invites people to bring a bottle and "love and joy" to Brighton seafront.

 

Don’t forget to post the pics from the BLM protests 

[Johnsond]

55 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

"enforcement" will be an interesting challenge.  A coincidental 'coming together' of 10s?  100s? 1000s? of individuals taking their unrestricted opportunity for individual outdoor exercise...  Your Honour....

Maybe the police will observe from a distance do nothing and may even take the Knee 🤮🤮

[trigger_andy]

7 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Don’t forget to post the pics from the BLM protests 

Does not fit the narrative. 

[Johnsond]

25 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Does not fit the narrative. 

Watching the celebrations in NZ and Aus on the news and got to thinking of the difference between those islands and ours ref how they handled the virus, I wonder what the outcry would have been from within the UK and Europe if Boris had closed the borders and hit people with restrictions to the extent they did.  looking at the shit show Macron instigated I don’t think it would have went well. In reality situated where we are and being so closely tied to Europe would it have even been possible. I know from talking to mates and family over in Aus that the acclaim received by the authorities from overseas about how they handled things is not universal from within its own population. 
 

[eggsarascal]

2 hours ago, Scottish Cleaning Service said:

EU law i guess. An employer can't dictate what someone does in their own time. Nurses up here have been working as bank nurses for years. Maybe its different up here but even police are allowed to work part time all they do is tell their employer.

An employer sure as hell can dictate what an employee can do down here, my last employed contract, on the books, I had to declare (like I did!) any work done outside of the work I did for them. If it breached the working time directive you weren't meant to do it.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

3 hours ago, Big J said:

 

I can't disagree with that. 

Madness.  Exactly the sort of madness that encourages evangelical hysteria and provides the 'meaning' to lost souls.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

7 hours ago, Silverhooker said:

Full time, and PT, NHS staff are not allowed to do agency work, although they can work over time and most hospitals have a bank of staff willing to do this.

To be an agency staff you have to be wholly employed by the agency who negotiate your pay on your behalf, and take a hefty cut for doing so. Agency staff do get paid more than normal staff, but a large part of the difference is taken by the Agency "middlemen" ! Being an agency nurse means you don't however get a pension contribution by your employer and you are responsible for your own NI and tax. Also you go from one place to another often on a daily basis !

I did a quick google.  It appears that it is right that full time NHS staff are prohibited from taking agency roles...

 

But that only came into effect from April 2017.

 

Prior to that, it must be assumed that they could take additional paid employment during periods when they were on 'rest' time mandated in T&Cs and viciously defended by Unison - strike action in 2016 (Drs), 2017 (nurses) and 2020 (nurses NI.) 

 

Putting aside the question of whether pay & T&Cs are appropriate / sufficient, the glaring hypocrisy of defending mandated rest periods whilst turning a Nelsonian blind eye to work in rest periods is what I call union BS.    

 

Ban on agency shifts at other trusts comes in from April | Nursing Times

WWW.NURSINGTIMES.NET

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The regulator NHS Improvement wrote to trusts in February warning them about the forthcoming new rul...

 

 

[Khriss]

59 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Madness.  Exactly the sort of madness that encourages evangelical hysteria and provides the 'meaning' to lost souls.

Who died n made you Jean Paul Satre! Eh! ☺️ K

[Stubby]

2 hours ago, Scottish Cleaning Service said:

NHS doctors also work in private hospitals up here or the private hospitals wouldn't have any staff. My mate got sent to a private hospital and he was shocked to see the same NHS consultant but he had more time with him. That was years ago unless its changed now. 🤔

Its still the same .