I remember when I started work most people did a 40 hour week, by the time I went self employed in 1999 I was down to 36 a 4 1/2 day week so a 32 hour week isn't a huge jump.
The 2 electronic factories in our town finish at 1.00 on Fridays.
There's an inexorable logic to this and a lesson for Labour. The welfare state was always based on trust, you pay in and draw down in need.
If you don't pay in then what "right" does one have to draw down?
They also told them they want free dental, a 4 day week and to remain in the EU.
Little did he know he was knocking on Jezza's front door.
But most people who finish at lunch on Friday start early other days and put the standard hours in
Next it will be I drop the kids off so I can’t start till 9 but I still expect my Friday off
It’s a bullshit policy that will neither work nor be implemented
What about when my free broadband is down but it’s friday so One can sort it
No issue with flexible businesses but to roll out policies with no thought is desperate
Ok it’s got my vote now!Not everyone will have the same day off
There's an inexorable logic to this and a lesson for Labour. The welfare state was always based on trust, you pay in and draw down in need.
If you don't pay in then what "right" does one have to draw down?
Ok it’s got my vote now!
Not everyone will have the same day off
Not everyone will have the same day off
Very much this.
Our welfare system and it is welfare, not benefits as that term irks me is there for us all and at our greatest time of need and its when you can say that I've paid in and now need some help.
Its proudly ours, not anyone else's and if that makes me a racist or whatever other name they want to throw about then so be it.
Its not about having a day off its about working an average of 32hrs per week over a given period - say a tax year for example. It can actually allow businesses to manage their workforces better so in say times of surge people could be working 50hrs per week but when its quiet then just a few hours per week. If the work gets done at no extra cost everyone is happy. Ask anyone who works at home what hours they do and when and you will find very diverse hours are worked.
How does a nurse fireman teacher scaffolder tarmacer binman work at home?Its not about having a day off its about working an average of 32hrs per week over a given period - say a tax year for example. It can actually allow businesses to manage their workforces better so in say times of surge people could be working 50hrs per week but when its quiet then just a few hours per week. If the work gets done at no extra cost everyone is happy. Ask anyone who works at home what hours they do and when and you will find very diverse hours are worked.
If someone comes here from Germany, works for 18 months then is made redundant surely you wouldn’t leave them with nothing whilst they looked for further work? How would they get their kids to school, pay the rent etc?
In terms of contracts, there is a social contract which appears broken. This contract was an all in it together contract. Stable employment, fair days pay for fair days work and decent and stable living conditions as well as education for our children and safe streets - that’s what is broken, not a few people claiming a few quid from the ‘benefits’ system
Fair post.The wife thinks so.
Labour loses to a Tory majority and Corbyn goes.
Who is elected leader?
Do you go back to the centre, a formula that led to the most successful labour governments under Blair with stonking majorities or do you go left again, this time even more so?
Who do the likes of McCluskey crown next?
There lies the detail.
An extra day off with the family if it's Tuesday is no good when the kids are at school and the wife is at work.
How does a nurse fireman teacher scaffolder tarmacer binman work at home?
Agree entirely.Fair post.
A reminder of the person who shares with Cameron ultimately responsibility for the shit we’re in. Without McCluskey influencing the union vote for Ed Miliband, his brother would have won the leadership contest in 2010 and most likely defeated Cameron in 2015 with a moderate centre left Labour government that wouldn’t have gone anywhere near Brexit, and the consequent polarisation and likely break up of the country would just be a dystopian fiction writer’s idea for a book that everyone would think was too far fetched.
Fair post.
A reminder of the person who shares with Cameron ultimately responsibility for the shit we’re in. Without McCluskey influencing the union vote for Ed Miliband, his brother would have won the leadership contest in 2010 and most likely defeated Cameron in 2015 with a moderate centre left Labour government that wouldn’t have gone anywhere near Brexit, and the consequent polarisation and likely break up of the country would just be a dystopian fiction writer’s idea for a book that everyone would think was too far fetched.
But most people who finish at lunch on Friday start early other days and put the standard hours in
Next it will be I drop the kids off so I can’t start till 9 but I still expect my Friday off
It’s a bullshit policy that will neither work nor be implemented
What about when my free broadband is down but it’s friday so One can sort it
No issue with flexible businesses but to roll out policies with no thought is desperate
How does a nurse fireman teacher scaffolder tarmacer binman work at home?