malg
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She should have renewed.
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Public sector pay rise
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malg
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Mate ......Sodexo. I have soooo many stories about that lot. Scandalous is the right word.Just underline this, a couple of years ago I was speaking to a Sodexo handyman who was fixing some cupboards and, for some reason, I asked how much he charges for the job. No idea why, but I did and the answer shocked the hell out of me!
He told me the absolute maximum he would have charged would have been a couple of hundred quid, but because the NHS fired all its inhouse staff, who were rehired under Sodexo, they get to charge up to a grand for the same job!
Sodexo is one of the biggest drains on the Northwest NHS because they were allowed to input funds as a private entity and have massive profits as a result. They started out as a catering outlet in the NHS, ffs and now in Manchester, at least, all low level staff (porters, cleaners, handymen/ women) are Sodexo staff who are on relatively low pay whilst charging the NHS an arm and a leg for their essential services!
It, truly, is scandalous!
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Absolutely right. The legacy of PFI is crippling. I was in hospital must have been a few years back and was eating the normal piss poor hospital sandwich of 2 pieces of bread with one piece of limp ham in-between. I asked one of the ward sisters about costs and she said the NHS pay £4 per sandwich to Sodexo!! When you consider the bulk the NHS buy then that unit price is a scandal. Its more than you pay for a nice M&S butties. Must waste so juch money
Paracetamol, 29p in a supermarket... NHS pay shitloads more.
New chairs for the office, twice as much in the only catalogue you can order them from, than it is on Amazon, same with electric rising desks (I've first hand experience of this).
That specialist estates job you need a contractor for? Goes to the firm whoever scratches the back of the guy(or girl) who's in charge of sorting the job out, not to the firm who's best value for money.
I get involved in "doctors changeover" in my job role. At the main one usually in August, I turn up, and there's a full on continental breakfast layed on, paid for by whichever drugs company or locum agency paid the most to get in there. Goodie bags, stationary, the lot are provided by the reps whilst all the new junior doctors sign up.
She had acquired a Nursing Home and gave it up when she sold it not thinking she would ever work again. She went back to help outShe should have renewed.
I used to have a lot of care home and nursing home clientsParacetamol, 29p in a supermarket... NHS pay shitloads more.
New chairs for the office, twice as much in the only catalogue you can order them from, than it is on Amazon, same with electric rising desks (I've first hand experience of this).
That specialist estates job you need a contractor for? Goes to the firm whoever scratches the back of the guy(or girl) who's in charge of sorting the job out, not to the firm who's best value for money.
I get involved in "doctors changeover" in my job role. At the main one usually in August, I turn up, and there's a full on continental breakfast layed on, paid for by whichever drugs company or locum agency paid the most to get in there. Goodie bags, stationary, the lot are provided by the reps whilst all the new junior doctors sign up.
When a resident died all the medication relating to that client had to be destroyed , much of it had never been opened.
literally thousands of pounds thrown down the drain particularly when multiplied by the number of homes nationwide as the NHS would not allow it to be used on other residents or returned to the pharmacy
Funding current pay rises through government debt is not QE its government debt to finance current expenditure.It's not "debt". QE involves the Treasury buying its own debt from banks and other institutions. You're issuing your own currency.
And the Multiplier Effect is a long-established part of economic theory. Google it.
QE is usually only effective when inflation is very low or negative which isn't the problem here
I know all about the multiplier effect, if you would care to provide the link which says £1 spent in the Public Sector is equivalent to £1.70
What about every body else's pay rises how are they going to be financed in the private sector.
Most of the public sector received 100% pay during the pandemic, the private sector under furlough were either laid off or only received 80% of their pay
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roypaulknewmyfather
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Nebulous figures again. More public sector workers worked through Covid. private sectors 80% was funded by us! My daughter (private sector) was better off in lockdown taking 80%. No transport/childcare costs no problem. However I’m sure there were more horror stories but at least I’m prepared to admit it. Tories admit nothing, lie to cover it up and blame it on non Brits! Charlatans to a person, screwed the workers but feathered their own nests. Vermin!Funding current pay rises through government debt is not QE its government debt to finance current expenditure.
QE is usually only effective when inflation is very low or negative which isn't the problem here
I know all about the multiplier effect, if you would care to provide the link which says £1 spent in the Public Sector is equivalent to £1.70
What about every body else's pay rises how are they going to be financed in the private sector.
Most of the public sector received 100% pay during the pandemic, the private sector under furlough were either laid off or only received 80% of their pay
malg
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That's fine. But if she let it lapse then she can't be paid as a nurse.She had acquired a Nursing Home and gave it up when she sold it not thinking she would ever work again. She went back to help out
Prestwich_Blue
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I have never heard of the multiplier effect
Make up your mindI know all about the multiplier effect
Which bit of "private" in "private sector" do you not understand?What about every body else's pay rises how are they going to be financed in the private sector.