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Where would they come from? Thought we were world leading in full employment.
From current rail staff?
Leave and get a higher rate of pay via agency?
Of course only in the short-term, and with zero job security, and zero benefits such as pension and sick pay and holiday pay and ...
They'll be counting on enough taking the Queen's shilling to make it viable.
 
From current rail staff?
Leave and get a higher rate of pay via agency?
Of course only in the short-term, and with zero job security, and zero benefits such as pension and sick pay and holiday pay and ...
They'll be counting on enough taking the Queen's shilling to make it viable.
I think you'll find agency staff may be paid less. It just costs the employer more.
 
I think you'll find agency staff may be paid less. It just costs the employer more.
They will pay more to entice qualified people away from rail companies, especially if they can leave and get a redundancy package.
Higher pay from the agency dressed up as skills premium, probably only in the short-term.
The agencies costs will be lower as they don't have the same overheads on employees.
The price will be slightly lower given all factors such as not carrying absence costs through holidays and sick.

To be straight, it is not my preferred option but how I can see it being mapped out / spun in the media.
Same staff provided by an agency at a lower overall cost.
The likes of Serco and Capita are the ones to watch.
 
They will pay more to entice qualified people away from rail companies, especially if they can leave and get a redundancy package.
Higher pay from the agency dressed up as skills premium, probably only in the short-term.
The agencies costs will be lower as they don't have the same overheads on employees.
The price will be slightly lower given all factors such as not carrying absence costs through holidays and sick.

To be straight, it is not my preferred option but how I can see it being mapped out / spun in the media.
Same staff provided by an agency at a lower overall cost.
The likes of Serco and Capita are the ones to watch.
Agency work is never cheaper for the employer.
 
Of course but they’d be better off having them on zero hour contracts than through an agency, wouldn’t they?

Not necessarily no. If someone is employed through an agency you have less liability towards them than if they were directly employed.Depends on the sector as well.

Zero hours might work for a teenager in mcdonalds or amazon distribution warehouse workers but it is less likely to attract office workers or skilled railway workers.

You also seem to be overlooking that employers can use agency staff to keep wage growth down, and save costs on overtime.
 
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I’ve put us up to take one of those families. Council got in touch, explained the situation etc so there is some proactive action happening. I appreciate you wanted to score some political points there mate but just wanted to say they aren’t sleeping in shop doorways and, as a country, councils are trying to sort it. Reasons are mostly location doesn’t work or people volunteered to house them for, let’s say, questionable reasons.

The government should have done way more in supporting the process of matching volunteers with refugees of that there is no doubt. It’s been a shambles, no other way to describe it.

It was difficult for them - they wanted to APPEAR to be doing something to please some voters and APPEAR to be doing nothing to appease the others - looks like they managed it
 

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