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Contract hours, minimum pay, tax implications for pensioners, availability. Sometimes things are more complicated than just writing a script. This is quicker an
by thomasedwards 7y ago
Contract hours, minimum pay, tax implications for pensioners, availability. Sometimes things are more complicated than just writing a script. This is quicker and can be disbanded just as fast.
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoSure. But those complications can be set aside for the moment, and anyone caught abusing the normal regulations can be dealt with severely later.
- xyzzyz 7y agoIt's funny to see that the government regulations on employing people make it too hard for the government to bother going through with them, so they try to find a backdoor by hiring volunteers instead. One would think that the government will think on their feet and relax the burden at least in the time of life-threatening crisis.
- anticensor 7y agoThese burdens are put in place to prevent employer (as in superiors, not the folks you serve) abuse. They would abuse government servants here and there if it were easily replaced.
- piker 7y agoYou mean like instead of abusing them by asking them to volunteer?
- CathedralBorrow 7y agoHow are you abused if I give you an option to volunteer?
- hjanssen 7y agoThere is a big difference between being abused by your employer, on which you depend with your livelihood, and being a volunteer, who can literally walk away anytime without consequences.
- xyzzyz 7y agoYou can also walk away anytime from employment without consequences. You just stop making money. At least that's how it is in America. Is UK government regulation different?
- lordlimecat 7y agoI fail to see how a scenario where you can walk away any time and are being paid could ever be more abusive than a scenario where you can walk away at any time and are not being paid.
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- garmaine 7y agoEmergency powers should override that.
- gruez 7y agoCan't wait until the next financial meltdown (no, not this one) and worker rights are rolled back because it's an "emergency".
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoWhat's happening now isn't just a financial crisis. There's a very obvious and very real additional factor at play here.
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- xyzzyz 7y agoSure, I get why the regulations are there. However, here they clearly fail to serve their purpose. Are they going to protect volunteers from abuse? If not, then why should they be allowed to even use volunteer help? If the argument is that volunteers can just walk away when they don't like the conditions, why not simply give the same opportunity to paid workers? My point here is that regardless of whether the regulations have good reason or not, trying to work around them by hiring volunteers is utterly ludicrous.
- JdeBP 7y agoAnd here's the Bill that is aimed at doing just that, amongst a whole bunch of other things. Emergency volunteering, changes to business leases, relaxation of rules about claiming NHS pensions while working for the NHS, retention of DNA samples, changes to funerals, fewer double-checking measures on mental health orders, suspension of free movement and association, wartime arrest and detention powers, ... * https://services.parliament.uk/Bills/2019-21/coronavirus/documents.html https://services.parliament.uk/Bills/2019-21/coronavirus/doc...