felixthelogchopper

They may take our lives but they'll never take our soggy conifer.

RIP Aretha Franklin

I think it might be a LANTRA ticket.

Teenagers will do anything for the chance of a shag.

I have to say I do respect your level of ambition, Mick.

Obviously fake news. You lot are so gullible.

It's bloody uncomfortable sleeping on the bog all night.

I just leave the end of my nob draped over the toilet seat before I go to bed.

Is he still at CBC?

Has anybody ever told you what a nasty old cynic you are?

Paper potato sacks?

Mutton musket.

I always used to have one in my rucksack when I was using the trains and Tube to go to work in London. 'Well, Officer, there's a lot of dog crap on the pavement on my walk home from the station'.

Speaking for myself at my point in life, if I didn't accept the terms of a contract them I wouldn't agree to it. If I couldn't negotiate to a postion that I found acceptable then I would walk away. Not sure if I could have said the same at 17 though. I only work for others on the basis of freelance labour so contracts are far more simple for me but I did work in a previous career on a PAYE basis where I had a lot of experience of industrial relations. I can say that, having made a contract, I would expect both parties to bound by the terms in that contract. Ultimately, if the employee won't sign a contract then I wouldn't expect the employer to allow them to work. You can't sign away a statutory entitlement such as holiday pay so the rest just comes down to the quid pro quo of the contract. I don't think it would be unfair for an employer to expect either a minimum term of service or a scale of repayment in the event of the employee not completing the length of service, providing that was a term in a signed contract. A person would be naive to expect somebody to honour a contract they refused to sign. I certainly agree with what you said in a previous post about respect being earned and a two way street.

Bit harsh, mate. I'm sure it will have been somebody else's fault. It normally is.

Assuming I was a PAYE employee, I'd think that refusing to pay holiday pay was a breach of a statutory right of employment and that the court/tribunal would automatically include it as an implied term as part of a minimum contract of employment in the event of a dispute where there was no written contract.

Or slurry.